web log and bandwidth usage

Tim Aslat tim at spyderweb.com.au
Tue Nov 25 19:34:38 PST 2003


In the immortal words of Will Prater <lists-wp at mercurycloud.net>...
> I am looking for a solution that will monitor bandwidth usage for 
> websites on a server. I would like to get notified if a certain site 
> has exceeded a certain limit. I could create such a script myself by 
> parsing the weblogs.. or parsing output from a web log analyzer such
> as analog, but I would like to see if there are any solutions that
> some of you may be employing before I spend development time on this.

check out mod_accounting, it's designed specifically for what you want.

> What might be some of the better choices for web log analysis as well?

I use webalizer but mostly I get what I need from mod_accounting (look
in ports under www)



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