April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 1m
English
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CMS Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress®, Joomla!®, Drupal™, and Plone®
by Tom Canavan
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Using Tools to Assist in Log Analysis
Now that you have a basic understanding of what you can expect to find your log files, take a look at some tools that can help with the analysis of log files.
AWStats
In many web hosts, you'll find a handy application called AWStats. This GNU/GPL tool is written in Perl. Following are a few of the things you can review with AWStats:
- Visitor data (such as number of visits, duration of visit, last visit, unique and authenticated visitors)
- Days of the week and rush hours with pages, hits, and so on
- Errors that have occurred
- IP addresses of visitors
- Browsers used by visitors
AWStats is one of the better tools to use for your SEO, and it supports several file types.
Take a look at a few features included with AWStats. Figure 8-3 shows a visual look at visitors to a website. In this case, 668 unknown (unresolved to domain) and 572 unique visitors have hit this website. You can also see the bandwidth the visitors consumed and their IP addresses.
Figure 8-3: Visitor information delivered by AWStats
Month-over-month views are valuable in measuring traffic, gauging bandwidth, and counting pages/hits. This is important for your security because if you see a sudden jump in bandwidth as shown in Figure 8-4, but you do not see an equal jump in traffic, someone may have hacked your server.
Figure 8-4: Month-over-month view of traffic
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