[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #429351] Access statistics for Savannah

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi Ward,

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ward Vandewege via RT <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry - this ticket got buried and then overlooked :/

I was thinking of pinging you again -- thanks for being faster.

> I have installed a cron job that will copy the previous days files every
> day, after log rotation. I've created a new user on savannah for this
> purpose, with name nongnulogcopy.

Most useful.

> You will see there are 4 files for every day:
>
>  nongnu-access.log.1
>  nongnu-error.log.1
>  nongnu-projects.log.1
>  nongnu-projects-error.log.1
>
> The first 2 catch all access to (www.)nongnu.org/. The latter 2 files
> catch all access to *.nongnu.org.

Due to my (immense) ignorance I didn't even know that projects can be
reached from project.nongnu.org!

> I think those nongnu-projects files will probably not be very useful
> because they don't log which hostname the access is from. If you want, I
> can add a field to those files for that purpose. Let us know.

I think it would be nice. If you are sure about some format that
awstat likes just do it; otherwise let me look into it.

It would seem that some projects prefer
  http://www.nongnu.org/project
and others
  http://project.nongnu.org/
with a majority in the first group. In my case I used the first option
due to ignorance (the second is much cleaner); perhaps it can be
extrapolated to others.

> OK?

Great. Now as soon as I have some time, let's start awstating those logs!

Alex.