[ale] Traffic

[JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM]

I am confused. The way a web server work (or atleast Apache) is it keeps a
(configurable) record of what is going on with the server, any errors as
well as a transfer file. Web admins can configure the server to show the
bytes transfered in the log file (or a custom log file). The "after-market"
web analysis programs have two possible choices: 1) Keep their own logs when
the server is running or 2) parse the log file for the info you are looking
for. I am not aware of any other way to get the info you need (except maybe
setup IPCHAINS and keep a running counter on a port). SO, with that said, if
you have access to the httpd.conf (or .htaccess if the admin allows
overides) you can put in the following command:

Logformat "%r -> %b" onlybytes
CustomLog logs/byte_log onlybytes

This will show you the bytes (%b) for each of the requests (%r). Now all you
have to do is parse this small(er) file and add up all the links that are
the same :)

Hope this helps some.

--Randy

-----Original Message-----
 From: jj at spiderentertainment.com [mailto:jj at spiderentertainment.com]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:08 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Traffic 


Is there a program that will show you which web sites do the most
traffic ? I don't want a program that reads log files, it takes too long
and too CPU intensive.

I got a IPtraf, it's really good, but it does not show the byte transfer
rate per alias IP.

Is there anything that can tell me which sites are doing the most
traffic(On the same machine) ? without reading the darn huge log files ?

Thank you :)