[dokuwiki] Re: Logging in Dokuwiki

  • From: Matthias Grimm <matthiasgrimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:58:53 +0100

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:17:14 +0100
"litwiki.de" <w@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
> 
> a very interesting idea. I do not find the discussion (can you give the 
> link?) so I have the question: what exactly do you try to log? How often 
> a page is accessed, or also who (if logged-in) watched which page?

I want to log how often a page or media file in the wiki was viewed.
Beside this the log format allows a lot more. Please have a lok at
common log file analyzers to get full overview.

> And is there a difference to server's logfiles?

No. As I described I use the combiled log file format which based on
CLF from W3C. A line in the log looks like this:

----snap----
127.0.0.1 - grimm [19/Nov/2005:19:36:34 +0100] "GET start HTTP/1.1" 200 154 
"wikitest/wikitest" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) 
Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)"
----snap----

> I'd surely find some logs helpful, if they go further, log different or 
> come handier than the server logfiles.

You could use tools like Webalizer or awstats to get usefull reports.

 Best regards
   Matthias

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