[ILUG-Cochin.org] Require client info at apache webserver........

[Vivek Varghese Cherian]

> As for now I am using Redhat linux and not Debianor Ubundu and found out
> that the mentioned log file in "/var/log/httpd/access_log"
> I am supposed to do it with out using any software tools and must use shell
> script for satisfying the requirement.

A combination of cut, uniq, sort, sed and awk can do the trick :-)

As Gejo said, awstats and webalizer are options. I have used awstats
on servers with thousands of  web hosting orders and it's  really
informative with the statistics it generates, but a huge pain when it
comes to maintaining it as the cron jobs and logrotate parts of
awstats often don't work ( or don't work as you want it to).

I remember countless hours me and my team have spend trouble shooting
awstats issues only to see it re-occur. So be wary of using it unless
absolutely needed.

I havn't used webalizer, so no comments there.

Regards,

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