AWStats logresolvemerge.pl questions

Drek · 06-23-2004, 04:40 PM

I've set up a website for my gaming clan, and seeing as I have no money, and nobody in my clan seems to either, I'm doing everything on the cheap. I've managed to find free hosting for our forums, but I was completely unable to find any free hosting for our downloads (game maps and such). So what I've done is broken my ISP's TOS and am hosting our web site on my cable connection.

Anyway, I'm using IIS 5.1, and I've got it all set up, and working I believe, I think I've managed to secure it as well as I am going to be able to. However, I want stats. I want to make sure that the web site isn't being bombarded, I don't think it will be, I haven't submitted to any search engines, etc., but I want to keep an eye on it.

I'm trying to set up AWStats to keep an eye on the server. However, I'm having a bit of a time getting it working. For one thing, it appears as though you have to enter the specific name of the log file for it to parse, which is a bit useless to me, seeing as the log file names are dynamic in IIS. Their solution of putting tags in the file name isn't very satisfactory either, because it still will only read one log file, and there are many log files in my logs folder.

They seem to indicate that you can use the logresolvemerge.pl tool to merge all the logs in the folder into one log for the purposes of parsing for stats. However I can't seem to get it to work. This is the line I tried:

LogFile="/tools/logresolvemerge.pl C:/Inetpub/W3SVC1/*.log |"

This seems to be the format that they indicate that I should use but all I get is an error to the effect that the log file name is incorrect. If anybody knows how to do this properly, I would be grateful.

edit: The logresolvemerge.pl script is in the "tools" folder, relative to the folder containing the awstats.pl script and the line is taken from the config file.

I also have one other completely unrelated question. When I was reading up on web server security the Microsoft help pages said that the best policy was to run IIS admin in an account with no priviledges using the "runas" command. Does this mean that when I am logged onto my server as an administrator, anyone connecting to the website has admininistrator privileges as well?

Thanks for the help... my head hurts...

Immo · 06-23-2004, 04:54 PM

If you want you can host it on my server and just give me a link or something

IIS is not too great at the best of times nevermind when on a cable modem.

Drek · 06-23-2004, 07:09 PM

Hrmmm, that is a generous offer, but not one I could easily accept from someone I don't know. I've probably got around 200MB of files for downloading, and that could easily rise to 500MB by the time I am done, as I really want to add alot of custom maps to my server. Anyway, if you are being sincere, you can reach me at olstairsatrogersdotcom... I still want to get my stats working though...