Re: generalInfo
Sean Sullivan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.linux |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello everybody, >>Because of the fact, that there are so many posts related to the Apache Web >>Server, I decided to ask you the following question: J >> >>I'm using Apache on Solaris and I want to make a usage statistics. (Which >>files were accessed to day / last moth / last year?) >> >>Does Apache have any APIs (some kind of performance objects, like the MS Web >>server has, so I can easily find those information I need) or do I have to >>analyze (parse) the log file? >> >>In the web I've just found the -log-file-parsing-solution advice. >> >> >> >>Btw., what visualization tool do you recommend me for making graphs out of >>the data I get from the Apache log parsing? (So I can use them in a web >>page) >> >> >> >>Thanks a lot. >> >>Regards, >> >> >>Jan Ciesko >>Microsoft Student Partner @ FAU - Erlangen >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>E-Mail: [email protected] >> >> >> I have used both awstats and webalizer. Webalizer is probably more secure out of the gate, but awstats creates a nicer stats page and can be used securely. I installed it into /usr/local/ and then created a script to run via cron job and build a static page twice a day for checking stats like: --------------------- #!/bin/bash perl /usr/local/awstats/awstats.pl -config=<your_domain> -update perl /usr/local/awstats/awstats.pl -config=<your_domain> -output -staticlinks > \ /root/web/stats.html -------------------- That will build a page (stats.html) in /root/web/ for later viewing. It was an easy way around the security concerns I have seen when running awstats CGI. -Sean