Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer with FrontPage - Need a package

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> My comment though.  I would call myself a moderate newbie.
> I don't know everything, but this is why I subscribe to this
> list.  I have for almost a year.  I read every post every day
> on this list to learn something new, and trust me I have.

Exactly. *This* is why we got Cobalts - because we weren't linux gurus...
not because we didn't know anything about building/maintaining websites. (I
also got it so the customers could do stuff without my intervention.)
And it's great for that. But it can't help you at all in the area of web
site building - and it shouldn't.

> When I first installed webalizer I did not even know what was
> in store.  I freaked.  I knew enough about cgi and the Cobalt
> to come up with this.

Exactly again! You knew enough about CGI to get things working - that's
webmastering.

> goto http://www.prevo.net/~stats or the other way would
> be http://www.prevo.net/users/stats/ either way works.
> BTW, its passworded.

Well that bites! <grin> We can't look.  ;)
But just seeing the password challenge proves you've got it working.
Putting it in the user's directory is a great idea. Hopefully someone will
read the archives and try this before asking us (again) why they can't
access the webstats files with FrontPage. (Or one of the other dozen
solutions people have offered up that get ignored every week...)

> I have not realeased the fact to my customers that there is
> webalizer on their sites.  A select few, but I warn them that
> the Stats are in Beta.  Had issues with log files being to
> big, etc.

Lots of customers want webstats, you could just warn them that the logs
eventually eat up space and they'll have to download them to their own
machine every once in a while if they want to keep the really old stuff
around. Their choice. *shrugs*
Makes me curious, though - do you go in yourself and trim things down now
and then? Hehe... I can see the emails now... "My site usage says I've used
25 megs, but my site is only 5 megs! What gives??"  Ten minutes later...
"Hey never mind, all of a sudden it's back down to 5 megs. That was
weird..."  ;)

Great solution!

Carrie