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While Web Hosting customers are already provided with Webalizer web statistics, all customers with web space can choose to generate web statistics themselves to track their web site traffic however they see fit. At XMission, logs for your web site can be copied nightly to an "access_log" file, which uses standard web log formatting.

Usage

Note: The following instructions are for Apache; users who wish to remain on the old Roxen server will need to use access_roxen in place of access_log in all instances. Keep in mind that if both access_log and access_roxen files are present in the directory, the access_log file will take precedence.

To create an access_log for your account, make the file, access_log in your public_html directory. Be sure that it is group writable (chmod g+w access_log).

Note: You may set all public_html permissions to defaults by logging in to http://home.xmission.com/ and selecting the "My Account" tab. There, you will find a "Repair Your Web Permissions" option under the "XMission Tools" section.

If you'd like your statistics to be viewable from the web (e.g., With Netscape or Internet Explorer), you need to make the access_log group readable as well (chmod g+r access_log). Once proper permissions are set, point your browser to the following URL, replacing acctname with your XMission username.

http://www.xmission.com/~acctname/access_log

If you don't want it publicly viewable, make sure the group readable access is off (chmod g-r access_log).

Because the file will continue to grow, keep an eye on the size. This does count against your disk quota.

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