10INTERNET SERVER ADMINISTRATION

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The job of managing a web server and service is often completely separate from the job of designing and managing content on the website. While the previous chapter offered tools geared primarily toward web developers and other content managers, this chapter shows how to analyze web server log files, mirror websites, and monitor network health.

#73 Exploring the Apache access_log

If you’re running Apache or a similar web server that uses the Common Log Format, you can do quite a bit of quick statistical analysis with a shell script. In a standard configuration, the server writes access_log and error_log files for ...

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