Re: Distinguish between users and robots in access log?

2006-03-27 Thread Jon Wingfield
Looks like you are running the default access log settings. For logging of user-agent and referer (when given) try: CustomLog logs/access_log combined http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#accesslog HTH, Jon Scott Purcell wrote: I really would like to find out how my (and if my site)

Re: Distinguish between users and robots in access log?

2006-03-27 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Then you might want to take a look at this link http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active.html Better start here: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html This is what Tim really posted. Regards mks - To

Re: Distinguish between users and robots in access log?

2006-03-27 Thread Hadraba Petr
Hi Scott, look at awstats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net ). This projects parses Apache httpd's logs and can determine who's bot and who's not. Maybe you find there some insteresting informations. PETR On 3/27/06, Jon Wingfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you are running the default

Re: Distinguish between users and robots in access log?

2006-03-27 Thread Len Popp
What I do is look at the IP addresses that access robots.txt and consider any similar IP address to be a robot. Similar means the same first 3 bytes - often the requests for pages come from a different machine than the one that checked robots.txt. It's not perfect but it works pretty well. You