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  1. Installation
  2. Documentation

Analog is a very popular web server logfile analysis program that can be installed directly on a Virtual Server. Analog will analyze your web server logfiles in-place and then create HTML, text, or even e-mail reports of your web site traffic. Our Web Development Team has made Analog freely available for easy installation on all Virtual Servers.

Installing and Configuring Analog 3.32
To install Analog 3.32, Telnet or SSH to your Virtual Server and do the following:

  1. Untar the Analog 3.32 tar file located in the /usr/local/contrib directory of your Virtual Server host machine. These commands will copy the Analog software onto your Virtual Server. 
    % cd    (this will put you in your home directory)
% tar -xvf /usr/local/contrib/analog3.32.tar
  2. Now that the Analog software is installed, you will need to configure it for your Virtual Server. This is done by editing the analog.cfg file which is now located in your ~/usr/local/etc/httpd/analog/ directory. You will need to make sure that the following lines of the configuration file contain the correct information: 
    LOGFILE /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/access_log
OUTFILE /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/analog3.32/index.html
HOSTNAME YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME

    The LOGFILE parameter designates the path and filename of the TransferLog file on your Virtual Server. The OUTFILE parameter designates the file that your virtual server's web server statistics will be written to. The HOSTNAME parameter indicates the domain name of your Virtual Server.

  3. Analog has already been compiled for your use. All that you need to do once the configuration file is ready is run the Analog program to create an HTML page with your virtual server's web statistics. 
    % virtual /www/analog/analog

    This will create a page with your Virtual Server's web statistics at the location and filename you specified in the analog.cfg configuration file. According to the configuration above the page with your statistics would be located at:

    http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/analog3.32/index.html

  4. To have an Analog report regularly e-mailed to you, add something like the following to your cron (the text below should all be placed on a single line in your cronfile): 
    59 23 * * 7 /usr/local/bin/virtual /www/analog3.32/analog +O- +a 
   | /usr/bin/mail -s "Weekly Stats" user@YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME

    This will cause your Virtual Server to send you an e-mail each Sunday night at 11:59pm containing your Analog analysis report in ASCII format. For more information concerning Analog command line arguments, see the documentation.

Documentation
Local documentation will be installed on your Virtual Server when you install Analog. This documentation can be accessed in the following file:

~/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/analog3.32/docs/Readme.html http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/analog3.32/docs/Readme.html

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/

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