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Zvon

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stats public link

« on: January 19, 2007, 06:25:12 AM »

Hi there guys,

I was wondering if anyone has been able to successfully do this, my customer wants a stats link such as http://domainname.com/stats

now Im aware that i need to copy the webalizer stats files from /tmp/webalizer to public_html/stats.

I created a cron job to take care of this :

* * * * * cp /home/username/tmp/webalizer/* /home/username/public_html/stats/

I'm not sure if something is wrong here, maybe I'm not seeing the error as I should be with the little amount of sleep I've had past week Smile

Thanks,

Zvon.


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dbrewster

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Re: stats public link

« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2007, 12:47:25 PM »

I thought I'd try the same thing, great idea...

This worked for me:

cp tmp/webalizer/* public_html/stats/

but it does not include any subfolder (subdomains.) I guess those have to be set up separately, or is there a flag that tells cp to copy subdirectories as well?

*really this question should go under Cpanel forum. I just happened to find it searching globally for "webalizer".

However... This is actually useless, since one cannot configure webalizer.conf to filter out incidental files used in building each page, such as .css, .gif, .js, favicon, and so forth. The statistics are so skewed that my homepage comes up as #30 in the top 30 pages... above it are a slew of gifs, javascript, and CSS links. Also, one is unable to filter out one's own visits to one's site.

C'mon, Lunarpages, who cares how many times a .gif image is loaded! It would be nice for LP to offer a better stats service, especially for commercial package customers. I wonder what would be involved in permitting user-configurable webalizer.conf files.

I'm not so happy with Windows-installed Webalizer, because I get a boatload of "Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field", "Warning: Truncating oversized request field" messages. Even after researching this, I still don't know what it means or what I can do about it, if anything.

---Diana


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Lupine1647

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Re: stats public link

« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2007, 02:26:31 PM »

Hello:

You can use the -R flag to copy sub-folders and files:

Code:

cp -R tmp/webalizer public_html/stats

Unfortunately, Webalizer is integrated into Cpanel and Plesk and can not be configured on a per user basis. Might be something to suggest to Cpanel or Plesk to look into doing.

You can install your own statistics script if you would like.

Let us know if you have any other questions.


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glenfiddich

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Re: stats public link

« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2007, 01:10:47 AM »

keep in mind that WebAlizer or AWStats only really provides raw traffic info.

For more detailed reporting, you might want to consider such tools as Google Analytics, Mint, PHPMyVisits. Note that these solutions imply that every single page in your site be 'tagged' with Javascript code, which is an additional coding effort.

and if you need further analysis and consulting, let me know Wink


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