Virtual Private Server User Guide

Log Files and Statistics Reports

Analog Web Statistics 

Analog is a great statistical analysis program that is preinstalled on your VPS 

server. Analog analyzes your Web server logs and creates easy to read HTML 

reports that can be viewed through a Web browser. 

Analog has many advantages over similar programs: 

   It s free to you. 

   It s very fast. 

   It s easy to run. 

   It reports information from all four log files (referrer, access, agent, and error). 

   It can produce reports in 14 different languages, and three output formats. 

   It s very flexible. There are over 180 options available for customized reports. 

   It produces an attractive output in HTML format, viewable by any Web 

browser. 

For an introduction to the type of reporting analog can produce, please visit the 

following URL: 

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/stats/statsanal.html

Using Analog with Your Main Domain

To generate analog statistics reports for your server s main domain, log into your 

server and enter the analog command at the shell prompt, as shown below:

> analog +g/usr/local/www/vhosts/example.ext/logs/analog.cfg

As soon as you issue the above command, analog produces reports in the 

Webstats directory of the site. You can then view the resulting reports at the 

following URL, where example.ext is your actual domain name:

http://www.

example.ext

/webstats/

You will need to run the program every time you want to create an updated report, 

or you can use the cron facility to automatically run the program at a specified 

interval.

Using Analog with Virtual Hosts 

If you have added virtual hosts to your server with the vaddvhost command, you 

can use analog to view statistics for those sites as well. The vaddvhost program 

creates a separate analog configuration file for each virtual host, which can be 

found in the host s /www/vhosts/domain.ext/logs directory. 

To generate statistics reports for a virtual host on your server, log into your server 

and enter the following command at your shell prompt, where domain.ext is the 

actual domain name of the virtual host:

> analog +g/www/vhosts/example.com/logs/analog.cfg 

Technical Training Department

August 2004

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