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squish · Feb 26, 2003, 10:14 AM

Detrius · Feb 26, 2003, 10:30 AM

dude. don't waste our time with a link to another board like that. Ask the question or don't.

squish · Feb 26, 2003, 10:42 AM

sorry, my bad.

mitchell_pgh · Feb 26, 2003, 11:10 AM

it's just bad form to try to get us to go to another board. Many of us are MacNN only, and we like it that way...

If you want to ask the question here, feel free...

ppmax · Feb 26, 2003, 11:14 AM

dude--dont waste his time with a reply like that. answer the question or dont.

to monitor access to your website open these two files:

/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

as a tip i make shorcuts to these docs in my favorites folder. i then open the Console app (in /Applications/Utilities) and then open these two files from the Favorites folder.

ppmax

squish · Feb 26, 2003, 02:40 PM

thanks a lot for telling me where the files were and how to open them, i dind't know that (I only have a winbox right now).

Now, are there any GUI apps that put this info into graphs and charts and stuff? I would love something like that because I am planning on starting a website and monitoring visitors/activity is very important.

Arkham_c · Feb 26, 2003, 06:12 PM

Reading the log file is one thing. More interesting is to generate statistics. I use Webalizer, but there are other good ones like Analog as well.

You can see what Webalizer does with my log file here:

http://software.theresistance.net/us...ge_200302.html

DaveNinja · Feb 26, 2003, 06:18 PM

There was a thread about a month back in the 'server' macnn forum. A guy there gave good directions on setting up webalizer

jbelch3 · Feb 27, 2003, 05:23 AM

Originally posted by ppmax:
dude--dont waste his time with a reply like that. answer the question or dont.

to monitor access to your website open these two files:

/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

as a tip i make shorcuts to these docs in my favorites folder. i then open the Console app (in /Applications/Utilities) and then open these two files from the Favorites folder.

ppmax

Good call ppmax...I love your reply

DAlex · Feb 28, 2003, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by ppmax:
dude--dont waste his time with a reply like that. answer the question or dont.

to monitor access to your website open these two files:

/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

as a tip i make shorcuts to these docs in my favorites folder. i then open the Console app (in /Applications/Utilities) and then open these two files from the Favorites folder.

ppmax

Where are these files located? I've tried searching for them but no luck.

Thanks for any help.

DAlex

piracy · Feb 28, 2003, 08:36 AM

Originally posted by DAlex:
Where are these files located? I've tried searching for them but no luck.

Thanks for any help.

DAlex

Um, the files are located at:

/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

DAlex · Feb 28, 2003, 08:41 AM

Originally posted by piracy:
Um, the files are located at:

/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

um, thank you, but um, as I said I've searched for them but cannot find them.

What I wanted to know, and probably should have made clear, is the whole path. Where is /var located for example (or where should it be).

Thanks

DAlex

invisibleX · Feb 28, 2003, 08:50 AM

I suggest you open your terminal. That'd be a start because you can't possibly not know where that folder is. Var is at the root of your hd. Might also want to take the chance and do "cd / ; ls" so you know where evrything is.

Gul Banana · Feb 28, 2003, 08:56 AM

Originally posted by DAlex:
um, thank you, but um, as I said I've searched for them but cannot find them.

What I wanted to know, and probably should have made clear, is the whole path. Where is /var located for example (or where should it be).

Thanks

DAlex

That is, indeed, the full path.
access_log is in httpd
httpd is in log
the log bone is connected to the var bone
and var is in /, the root of the filesystem - what you get if you open "Macintosh HD" or whatever your main hard drive is called. Do "Go to Folder.." in the Finder and enter "/var/log/httpd/" exactly like that.

DAlex · Feb 28, 2003, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
That is, indeed, the full path.
access_log is in httpd
httpd is in log
the log bone is connected to the var bone
and var is in /, the root of the filesystem - what you get if you open "Macintosh HD" or whatever your main hard drive is called. Do "Go to Folder.." in the Finder and enter "/var/log/httpd/" exactly like that.

Cheers! Thanks for that, as a newb to things like this that was great.

Thanks again

DAlex

awaspaas · Feb 28, 2003, 11:17 AM

i like doing tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log in the terminal... it keeps running and shows you hits as they come up in real time