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OtherMDesign
02-14-2005, 04:17 AM
A client needs a free web stats software for Windows. It can be software based or web based, but the most important things are: it must be easy to install, and easy to configure & get going. Client doesn't care much about features or anything.

AWStats is a pain to set up, I know this much, so that's probably not an option. I'm talking EASY.. unpack it, put it in a directory, plug in a few variables, and it's done.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

OtherMDesign
02-14-2005, 01:44 PM
Wow, I take back what I said about AWStats. That was really pretty easy. Not sure what I had probs w/ last time. I think I had trouble getting it working on Linux. But on Windows, it was pretty straightforward.

One thing I don't understand is how to make it retroactively process all past logfiles. It looks like AWStats is built to just analyze the previous day. If anyone knows how to make it retroactively analyze all log files in a dir, please let me know.

neo@theone
02-14-2005, 10:05 PM
For my understanding, awstats will analysys you log and then generate the data file at the path of "DirData" at its config file.
So what you should do is setup a cron job to make awstats analysis the logs, so even the log was being rotated, it would not get any influences from it.

neo@theone.