Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer problem solved!!!!

[Sam Moats <smoats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!

Sam Moats
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Cobalt Racks
At 12:26 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>For those having problems with Webalizer with the following problems, I came
>up with a way that solves them.
>
>1.  Not able to publish with FrontPage
>2.  Not able to Turn off and not have stats for a users site
>3.  Having to Chmod and Crown Front Page users sites for them to publish.
>
>
>I started thinking,  why not have the stats in the "users" directory
>that way it would not interfere with Frontpage when your users publish
>
>I did a test on this and it works great.
>
>I created a directory in the users directory called stats
>
>I changed the following lines in webalizer.pl to the following
>
>before:
>
>    $webpath = "$prefix/$asite/web";
>    $thepath = "$prefix/$asite/web/stats";
>
>After:
>    $webpath = "$prefix/$asite/users/stats";
>    $thepath = "$prefix/$asite/users/stats/web";
>
>All you need to do is create a directory called "stats" in
>in the site's user directory.
>
>The stats then show up when you goto  http://domainname.com/~stats
>
>This eliminates the problem with Frontpage and second, if you
>didn't want a site to generate a report, you would not put
>a stats directory in their users directory.  You will however
>get a email saying "error: unknow directory" in your admin
>email.  But you could discard it.  The email is good to see
>what sites are not getting the stats generated.
>
>Just thought I would share this with everyone.
>
>Only draw back, you can't have a user called stats, but who
>would anyways.
>
>L. James Prevo
>President
>The Prevo Network
>http://www.prevo.net
>"The Place Where We Unlock Your Doors to the Net!"
>
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