Webalizer not working, any tips?

Thursday 24 April 2003 12:07:49 am

I installed Webalizer v2.01-10 (on *nix) and in general it works fine except for one thing, it sums all occurences from /index.php into / aka removing the PATH_INFO from the full URL.

This is of corse something one wants to have, so that one can actually measure hits on different nodes/objects.

I've tried searching all over the net for an answer on how to tweak this, I've tried all possible (?) config-tricks in webalizer - and still no luck.

Any ideas?

\atle\
--

Friday 25 April 2003 3:33:26 am

Tony: what is your experience with awstats? Is it good? How about high traffic sites?

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Sunday 27 April 2003 11:03:59 am

The question I asked was the simplest regarding Webalizer. My problem is that all pages are summated into one (/ aka index.php).

I would think a CMS like eZp so sofisticated would have a need for more aqurate stats than what Webalizer offers (or seems to offer).

Why good people are you recommending Webalizer?

Just to clearify... I have used Analog (and other heavy packages) since the dawn of time so I am very familiar with quite complex stats-tools :-) I just wanted to test what the eZ's recommended.

Analog works like a charm btw.

\atle\
--

Monday 28 April 2003 3:30:02 am

I guess they recommed as Webalizer is also the Redhat default so you can add by up2date.

Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood
Vision with Technology
Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development

Power to the Editor!

Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training
eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future

Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:44:48 pm

Testing Webalizer using webalizer-2.01-10-win32-bin.zip

As far as I can figure out the "feature" Webalizer has that counts /index.* as / is hardcoded in the Webalizer-source (since they usually produce the same output on many sites).

I found an article addressing this issue on http://ertw.com/blog/archives/2003_12.html which points at the code-line involved;
add_nlist("index.",&index_alias);

A solution may be to recompile Webalizer without this code-line (maybe somebody already have done it ?).

One "workaround" just to test Webaliser on an eZ site with site access configuration that show index.php is to copy the access-logfile, doing a "search and replace" to replace occurences of "/index.php/" with "/" and then let Webalizer analyze it. This gives more detailed information on which URL's has been visited in the eZ-site.

Olav..