Hints and tips
If you have any question related to w3perl, you can choose between :
Installation :
- See the upgrade file if you want to install a more recent version
- Use the adminstration interface to build your configuration file (will avoid typo)
- Choose carefully your configuration option.
- Run the package on a small logfile to check everything is right
- If you run accidentally some scripts several time, don't worry, it won't produce bad values but rather a warning message !
Configuration :
- if you are running virtual web servers, install the package only once, then build one config-<web>.pl files afor each virtual servers nd call scripts via the -c flag to load them.
- if you don't want to log your user, use @exclurepert = ('/~');
- You can use regex expression, for example, if you don't want to log users from a provider, use @nolog = ('/ppp*.club-internet.fr/');
(people from club-internet have an dynamic IP like ppp<string>.club-internet.fr- Don't use @selecrepert = ('/'); ! It should be directories in the same depth level
- If you have a large logfile and want to scan only few days, use option available in cron-pages.pl. You can choose starting and ending days.
- Use the -h flag for list of available options.
- If your logfile is updated only few times a day (and not in real time as most do), the best time to run cron-inc is just before midnight.
- You are advised to launch the master script cron-w3perl.pl to compute all stats. To initiate use the -a flag (or to reset everything) or the -e flag to use the incremental mode.
- Disable reverse DNS if you want to compute stats faster.
