GWFstats - HTTPd access log Analyzer

GWFstats 1.1 - a HTTPd access log Analyzer GWFstats is a freeware integrated WWW and FTP log reporting tool. Its primary inspiration was the FTPWebLog 1.0.2 and GraphFTPWebLog 1.0 program written by Benjamin Snowhare Franz. Because FTPWebLog 1.0.2 and GraphFTPWebLog 1.0 seems to be a little bit unflexible/unhandy, I took the source and assembled the new GWFstats programm.

Improvements

able to make use of more than one previous generated reports
able to generate a non-graphic report only or a graphic report only or both at once and so there is no need to use two programs with different switches ...
substitute logged URLs with another Perl Regular expression (e.g. -u '/(^java|^Java)$@@\/docs\/Java\/' because /java and /Java are links to /docs/Java and would be counted as several files)
Option DefaultIndexNames (-I) uses a regular Perl expression to determin DirectoryIndex pages (see NCSA HTTPd DirectoryIndex directive)
e.g. with -I '([Ii]ndex.html|[Ww]elcome.html)' /dir/index.html, /dir/welcome.html and /dir/ are counted as the same file
archives graphic reports
some minor changes in handling specific optional parameters (-A 0|1 is now -A etc.)

What does a GWFstats report look like ? Here are some examples of gwfstat generated reports for our Web server:

How can I get it ? Hold down the shift key and klick on this link to download the latest version.

The following packages are required to run GWFstats:

You *MUST* have Perl 5.001 or later to use the graph generating Perl script. Perl 4.036 is sufficient for the text based report, but Perl 5.001 is necessary for the graphic based report. Perl 5.x is available at these CPAN sites
Lincoln Stein's GD.pm - Interface to Gd Graphics Library
Country-Code file, which is directly accessed by GWFstats.

Configuration Almost all the options are explained directly by running GWFstats with the option -h.

Identify where your access_log is stored. (e.g. /local/www/logs/access_log)
Identify the system path where the generated stat files are to be written or mkdir a new one (see option -p)
(e.g. /home/user/public_html/stats )
Identify the URL path to that directory (see option -P)
(e.g. /~user/stats )
If you want to generate a non-graphic report, choose a name for the new stat file (see option -o)
(e.g. stats.html)
If you want to generate a graphic report, choose a name for the new stat file (see option -g)
(e.g. graphs.html)

Now run GWFstats with the appropriate options. For example:

gwfstats -p /home/user/public_html/stats -P /~user/stats \
         -o stats.html -g graphs.html  /local/www/logs/access_log

To get more sophisticated reports just have a look at the Command Line Options.

Example:

Follow this link to see, how we generate statistics for our web server.