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Tech note FS1402

Description
Can I use FlashStats with the WebTen web server on the Macintosh?

How come I get results of No Items Found when analyzing my WebTen log files?

Answer
You can successfully use FlashStats with WebTen, with two small caveats. The WebTen web server claims to use the Common Log Format, but in fact uses a format that is not quite standard.

Instead of logging something as:

some.host.com - - [date] "GET /default.asp" 200 1234

it adds the host & port:

some.host.com - - [date] "GET http://www.maximized.com:80/default.asp" 200 1234

FlashStats can handle this format, but it raises two issues.

First, you need to tell FlashStats to analyze pages beginning with http:// instead of pages beginning with /. (This is because the URL now starts with http://.) For example, in the Report Request Form, instead of entering something like this:

Page to Analyze:

Analyze subdirs (when specifying a directory instead of a file)

you should instead enter something like this:

Page to Analyze:

Analyze subdirs (when specifying a directory instead of a file)

The other issue is that this new format makes it easier to analyze individual domains on a multi-homed site. For sake of example, let's assume that your WebTen server hosts web sites for www.abc.com and www.xyz.com. To see results for just the www.abc.com site, you would enter a value like this:

Page to Analyze:

Analyze subdirs (when specifying a directory instead of a file)

Likewise, to see results for just the www.xyz.com site, you would enter this:

Page to Analyze:

Analyze subdirs (when specifying a directory instead of a file)

Finally, if for some reason you wanted to consolidate the results for both sites, you could enter something like this which would match both web sites:

Page to Analyze:

Analyze subdirs (when specifying a directory instead of a file)