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Where does webalizer get its information?

April 26, 2017Webalizer

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Where does webalizer get its information?

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Actually it’s farmed straight out of the raw web logs (which you can check out at /var/log/httpd/username/ on shell.sonic.net or ftp.sonic.net). The raw logs should contain a variety of environment variables supplied to www.sonic.net when a browser requests a file from us, including HTTP_REFERRER. • source (IP or name) • destination domain (eg. sonic.net) timestamp • HTTP request (normally a “GET” followed by the URL of the file in question) • HTTP response code (normally 200 for a success) • file size (in bytes) • URL of the referring site (which is where Webalizer gets the search string) • Whatever the browser identifies itself as (eg.