RE: [cobalt-developers] webalizer problems log files RaQ3

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Barry,

> I installed the package from the cobalt site looks nice. 
> (thanks who ever 
> did this) however I see a problem in that it dont ever 
> display the hostname 
> of the users that hit the site. This is not a fault with the 
> webalizer 
> program but I think the Apache that runs on the RaQ3. I dont 
> think it knows 
> how to do dns lookup to find a hostname from the calling IP address.
> is that a config problem How do you get Apache on RaQ3's to 
> write log files 
> with host.domain.names etc instead of IP Addresses.

I just found the same issue with one of our RaQ3's. You need to edit your
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (make a safe copy of it first), and change the
line:

HostnameLookups off

to:

HostnameLookups on

It'll now work for future logs. It obviously doesn't do it retrospectively
and you should restart httpd too to have Apache load the new conf file.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
http://www.waytotheweb.com