I'm hoping someone can tell me a bit about stats.

The hosting company I use provides a good stats service that pretty much sums up everything you could possibly want to know. However, I want to create my own simple stats page for a customer in their CMS. I think I'm right in saying that all the info can be found in the log file(s), but I don't know how to go about pulling out the relevant bits and displaying them on a page in an easy to understand way.

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

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Hi Matt

On Windows web server log files can be found in windows\system32\logfiles folder and they are normally space delimited so you handle these just like a csv/text file. I know they can be a bit of a pain to work with though. Get a copy of one and open it in Excel and you'll see the problem yourself and give you something to play around with.

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I use Linux, but I found the logfiles. Here's an example line from the logfile:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>mywebsite.co.uk: [02/Jun/2005:22:11:27 +0100] 86.128.156.206 - - "GET /file.swf HTTP/1.1" 200 27575 "www.mywebsite.co.uk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312"</font id=code></pre id=code>

Does anyone know of any websites that have tutorials on pulling all the relevant bits of info out of logfiles and displaying them in a meaningful manner?

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