No traversals or hostnames in www log report

[Wytze van der Raay]

Ella Lynoure Braakman wrote:

> I ran a report on a combined apache log, and have problems:
> 1. The host names do not show. Is there some way to ger Lire to look 
> them up?

Lire itself contains no code for performing IP address to hostname 
translation, but you can pre-process your apache log before feeding it to 
Lire with one of the many available free software tools for performing this 
translation. The most obvious one would be 'logresolve', which is typically 
included with any apache installation. See 'man logresolve' for how to run.
Of course you can also consider to set the 'HostnameLookups' variable in 
your apache configuration to 'On', but that also has some disadvantages 
(e.g. delayed response for the first access due to DNS lookup delays).


> 2. There is a Top Traversals section, but it looks like following:
> 
> Top Traversals, Top 10 Start Page, Top 5 2nd Pages, Top 5
>   3rd Page
> 
>   First Page                                             Requests % Parent
>      Second Page
>         Third Page
>   ------------------------------------------------------ -------- --------
>   None                                                       2040     16.8
>      None                                                    2040    100.0
>         None                                                 2040    100.0
>   ------------------------------------------------------ -------- --------
>   Total for 12121 records                                   12121    100.0
> 
> So, it doesn't actually show traversals. How can I make it to?

This looks rather strange indeed. A "None" at the 2nd or 3d level is quite 
normal, but I cannot explain why you would get "None" at the 1st level.
This report is generated from a derived scheme on your log data, which 
excludes requests ending in .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif and .css -- could it be 
that there are no other requests present in the log file?

Regards,
Wytze van der Raay

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