Re: [Summary-Talk] Old logs with new logs

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/31/03 1:50 PM Gregg Luhring (gregg@3wdesign.com) wrote:

>Sorry, that is what I meant to say "Can I use my log files with Summary
>from both Web*4 and Web*V?"

Yes, but they are difficult to combine into one sub-report. WebSTAR adds 
some additional path information to each request in the log file. In 
WebSTAR 4.x this was the part relative to the WebSTAR document root. In 
WebSTAR V this is the absolute path on disk. Absolute paths are normally 
far longer than relative paths, making it almost impossible to get the 
extra path information to match up.

Summary is capable of removing the extra path information, but it can 
only remove a single number of directories worth of extra path 
information per sub-report. Since WebSTAR 4.x and WebSTAR V logs will 
normally have differing numbers of extra directories it is problematic to 
get them to match up. You can resolve this problem using Aliases (in Plus 
and SP), but the details of how to do that depend on exactly how you have 
both versions of WebSTAR setup.

Many people find it sufficient, and much simpler, to create two 
sub-reports for each site. One would have the older WebSTAR 4 logs in it 
and the other would have the newer WebSTAR V logs in it.

If you do want to attempt the aliases approach you should make sure that 
you upgrade to Summary 2.3.10 first. There were some changes and fixes to 
the way aliases worked recently that are important. The key is to develop 
an alias that translates the older WebSTAR 4.x logs into the format used 
by the newer WebSTAR V logs, replacing the old prefix with the new one, 
will leaving everything else alone.

Good Luck
Jason

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