Re: [Summary-Talk] Newbie, Summary and OS X Server

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/18/04 4:56 PM Brian Sheafer (brian@svmac.com) wrote:

>I installed 
>Summary on the server that is running my web 
>site.  I am using Mac OS X Server 10.2.8.  Under 
>Menu->Configuration->Log Downloading, what 
>path/URL should I put?

If Summary is running on the same machine as the web server then you 
don't normally need to download the logs. Instead you make an alias 
(shortcut/symbolic link) to the logs and put it in Summary's Logs folder.

By default OSX Server puts it's log files in "/private/var/log/httpd". If 
you are using the regular Macintosh version of Summary that can cause 
problems, because Summary won't be able to access the /private directory. 
The OSX Command Line version of Summary doesn't have this problem. You 
can work around it either by reconfiguring the web server to write the 
logs to a different place, or by downloading them. If you do download the 
logs you would use a URL like:

<ftp://127.0.0.1/private/var/log/httpd/access*>

Good Luck
Jason

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