I think I see the problem. Let me offer an experiment.
I'm using Solaris 8. Redhat 9 should perform similarly.
I go to my Apache document root "/web/docs" and I
create a file "file.html" in my doc root. Then I create
a symbolic link "pointer.html" to "file.html".
Next I visit "http://www.louisiana.edu/file.html";. As I
might expect, "/file.html" is listed in my logfile. Next I
visit "http://www.louisiana.edu/pointer.html";. Which
should appear in my logfile "file.html" or "pointer.html"?
Since Apache served "file.html", it adds "file.html" to
the log file and not "pointer.html".
Likewise, since "/pages/" is a symlink, it won't appear
in your Apache logfile. What will appear is the actual
path that "/pages/" points to (or symbolizes). There is
no way that "/pages/index.html" will be added to your
logfile because Apache isn't serving that page. Rather,
look for the actual path in your logfile and in the reports
that Analog generates.
HTH,
-- Duke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for answering my question. The answer confirms that there is a
problem with the numbers that analog is calculating. I will be (hopefully)
more clear this time as I describe my problem because I am sure that there
is an answer.
I have an old homepage called /homepage.html. There is a redirect in the
apache config that sends people to the new homepage which is called
/pages/index.html. The "pages" part of that link is a symlink on the
filesystem to another location. For whatever reason, "/pages/index.html"
is not appearing in the list of most requested pages but I know that it is
because it is my homepage.
Every 301/302 should result in a 200 if the redirect is correct and at that
point analog should count it as a successful request. The redirect is
correct because it works on the site and therefore if I have 14,000
redirects from /homepage.html shouldn't I also see /pages/index.html with
14,000 requests? I see /homepage.html in the list of redirects at the top
but I do not see /pages/index.html in the list of requests at all.
Any advice is always appreciated.
Steven
Stephen Turner
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess the question that I really need a clear answer to is, if the
webserver successfully redirects a user to the same server does that mean
that analog will count 1 status 301 and also 1 status 200? When I want
to
know the total number of page views do I look at the pages views or page
views plus redirects?
I'm still unclear about your setup. Your logfile sample had no redirects
in.
Are you confusing HTTP redirects from the server with file system symlinks?
But anyway, it doesn't really matter, because the answer is simple. Analog
will count whatever's in the logfile. If there is an HTTP redirect, it will
count one redirect for the 301/302 and one successful request for the 200.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
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