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

[Barry Titmarsh <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:45 25/07/00 +0100, Sales - Way to the Web wrote:
> 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:

Okay Thanks that makes the Apache work a bit harder and thus slower. there 
is a patch for Webalizer that makes that do the Reverse DNS stuff. 
Maybe  to have a look at that as well.
also there is now Version 2.0 out that has all that fixed..

But I take your call and make the changes for now. to the httpd.conf

Barry



> 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
>
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