Re: probably a dumb question....getting list of unique IP addresses from apache logs

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Robin Paulson wrote:

> i'm hosting a site who's domain is due for renewal. i'd like to know how 
> many people have visited it in the last year, so i can judge if it's 
> worth keeping. i realise using IP addresses isn't great, but it is the 
> best i have. is there any way to check this via the apache logs? even 
> for the last few months, i'm not sure how far back my logs go, it's a 
> default ubuntu 10.04 setup
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awk '{print $1}' /path/to/logfile | sort -u | wc -l

assuming that visitor IPs are the first token in the file, and you have 
CLI, that's a crude way to count "unique visitors". of course it includes 
search-bots and lots of other "visitors".

use "head" to find out when the log file starts.


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