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Panix Web FAQ: 2.2. Webalizer


What is Webalizer?
The Webalizer is a web server log file analysis program which produces usage statistics in HTML format for viewing with a browser. The results are presented in both columnar and graphical format, which facilitates interpretation. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to display usage by site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser) and country.
Can I have my Webalizer output automatically generated?

Panix will add corp-web users to our monthly Webalizer cron run on request.
Individual users must set up their own cron jobs (cron access is available on request).

How do I use Webalizer?

Individual and cheap-web users should do the following:

  1. From your shell account, go into your webalizer space:
    cd public_html/webalizer
    If the "webalizer" directory does not already exist you will have to create it:
    mkdir webalizer
    chmod 755 webalizer
  2. Generate the raw logs:
    getclogs -o > logfile
    This produces the data that Webalizer will use to generate tables and graphs.
  3. For a fairly generic Webalizer page::
    webalizer -n www.yourdomain.com logfile

    (If you're using your personal web space, the domain will be www.panix.com/~.)
For detailed information on Webalizer's options, run man webalizer from a Unix prompt.

Interpreting Webalizer Reports


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Last Modified Tuesday, 30-Dec-2008 17:57:02 EST