Status Reports

Please choose from the following questions.

  1. Can I monitor or see the MBs that have been accessed?
  2. Can I password protect my status reports?
  3. Is it possibly to get the statistics from the 15th of last month?
  4. What does Code 404 Not found Request mean?
  5. What does code 302 mean?
  6. Is there a support page for Webtrends?
  7. Can I customize my status reports?
  8. Can I set up my account so a daily log is emailed to me?
  9. Can I change the output of theaccess_log file type to .gz, .log, .txt?
  10. Could you tell me what the access_log is and let me know if we have access to it? Is this the same as the .status ?
  11. Is there a way I can accumulate my access logs rather than having them turned over every day?

Can I monitor or see the MBs that have been accessed?

Please see: 
http://servername/~accountname/.status
Please replace where it says "account name" with your account and "server name" with the server you are on (for example, thor.he.net).

Can I password protect my status reports?

Yes. You can do that using the .htaccess method of limiting access.

Is it possibly to get the statistics from the 15th of last month?

The statistics are reset at the same time as the logs, on the 1st and 15th. After the logs are processed for billing information they are deleted. The reason the logs are reset is because they grow to be several gigabytes in size.

What does Code 404 Not found Request mean?

It means that you had a request for a document in your site that did not exist. Typically this is the result of a bad URL in one of your documents which links to a non existent document, either a mistake, or one that you were planning on writing but haven't yet.

What does code 302 mean?

Code 302 Redirected requests result when ever you specify a directory for a URL. For example, if you specify:

http://server/~yourname

the server redirects the browser to request:

http://server/~yourname/index.html

The server handles the redirection in this manner in conformance with HTTP standards. It is quite normal.

Is there a support page for Webtrends?

Webtrends has very extensive online documentation about the setup and use of their product at:

http://www.webtrends.com

Can I customize my status reports?

No. The status reports are generated automatically. You can however prevent them from being generated by deleting the .status directory in your home directory.

Can I set up my account so a daily log is emailed to me?

Yes with the proper script and using crontab.

Can I change the output of theaccess_log file type to .gz, .log, .txt?

To the best of our knowledge, webtrends will only generate real-time stats on a machine that it can run as a "background" task. NT is such a case.. Web trends currently does not run under the UNIX environment.

You can change the name of the log to have any extension that you would like. This does require knowledge of script writing (shell,C, perl, etc), and "telnetting" into the server.
 

Could you tell me what the access_log is and let me know if we have access to it? Is this the same as the .status ?

The access_log files contain all of the information from which the activity reports are generated. In general, only programmers need to know where they are because the information is in a raw format.

Is there a way I can accumulate my access logs rather than having them turned over every day?

Yes. In your home directory create an empty file called:

access_log

Your logfile will be rolled into this every night when the logs are processed.

To create the file telnet to the server and issue the command:

touch access_log

This will create an empty file.

Because the access_log file is included in you disk space allocation, you should check its size from time to time. You will be responsible for keeping your access_log file at a manageable size.