Re: [Summary-Talk] WebSTAR V logging advice

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/03 12:52 PM Karl Schroll (schroll@digitalfrontier.com) wrote:

>According to WebStar Admin, I am logging the CS(Host) token (set that 
>up per the Summary docs).  I have "Always use folder name as domain 
>name" checked, and in the "Domains to include in this sub-report", I 
>have the name of the name of the directory that holds the aliases to 
>the WebStar logs.  So I think this is set up per the instructions.
>
>But when I go to the report that you mention, what I see in the 
>"Domain" column is one entry that shows the name of the log directory 
>with 100% of all traffic, not any of the virtual domains nor traffic 
>breakdown by domain.
>
>What am I doing wrong?

I'm sorry, you are doing just what I said, but I told you the wrong 
thing. This is more complex than I realized when I was writing my 
response. The CS(Host) log token is being ignored because "Always use 
folder name as domain name" is checked. That is what that setting means, 
which I should have realized.

There are two ways to work around this problem, to get the report that 
you want. One approach is to reconfigure all of your sub-reports using 
method two <http://summary.net/manual/virtualdomains.html#method2>. That 
is a bit of work to get right, but is the most flexible.

The other approach is to give Summary a "User log format definition" that 
tells it that the CS(Host) field is some other field, one that you are 
not currently using. Possibilities include the server name, the auth user 
name, or the protocol. Then you would look in the corresponding report to 
get the results you want. For this to work you need to have been using 
only one log format (well two or three at most anyway) for some time and 
you have to develop a "User log format definition" that gets all of the 
other fields of that format correct. I can help you with that if you send 
me a small sample with the first dozen lines from one of your log files.

Jason

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