is anyone here successfully using awstats to analyze their log files? i am looking for a tutorial that explains how to set it up on a host like discountasp. most guides i can find contain steps i cannot perform since i do not have the web server in my home. anyone know of a good step-by-step guide? thanks.
awstats should be able to handle most standard log files. the first thing you need to do is to enable raw log file in the hosting control panel. once you download the log file, you can simply have awstats run against it. Bruce DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
thanks bruce. i guess the real question is how do i install awstats on a hosted iis server? do i just copy the perl scrips into the cgi directory of my dasp-hosted website and mod the config filelike on an apache server?
you cannot install that on our server. you'll have to run the stats program on your own computer. Bruce DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
AW Stats is a great program. I run it fro all my web clients on a windows 2000 server. The trick is getting the logfile correct. I match the logfile against the IIS log format. I run it as a virtual directory, that way I only need one instance. There are many tutrorials just google it. Sourceforge has an excellent one with the download.
there are many great tutorials for those installing it on their own web sites. since i cannot install it on dasp, i was looking for a tutorial on how to install it using only a perl installation. i was eventually successful using the docs on sourceforge. it is a great stats viewer, but this method of daily ftp-ing, unzipping, updating, and building html pages is less than smooth. note to dasp: i would have paid the $2/month for livestats if i could still have access to my raw log files.
