[BlueOnyx:07674] Re: Capturing stats

[James]

Thanks Michael.  Good to know on the rewrite stuff at least - I haven't
updated this particular server recently, and I have some other sites on it
where that will come into play.

> 
> >  I created (let's say) www.tiny.com and then went to the httpd include
> > and  manually updated that to force everything to redirect to
> > http://tiny.com  when accessed with www or anything else I may have
> aliased to it.
> 
> Since a couple of weeks you don't have to hack the include file anymore
for
> that. For each site you can configurethis behaviour through the GUI via
the
> "Web Alias Redirects" switch on each site. If the checkbox is ticked,
every
> access to a web alias will redirect to the FQDN of the site.
> 
> So if the site is named www.tiny.com in the GUI and has the aliases
tiny.com
> and mail.tiny.com, then accessing it by http://tiny.com or
> http://mail.tiny.com will redirect to http://www.tiny.com
> 
> If the checkbox is unticked, it will not rewrite the URLs.
> 
> The drawback of not rewriting the URLs is of course that traffic
statistics
> generated from the logs will count each of those records as acess to
> spearate sites.
> 
> > The second issue, and the one I'd really like to correct, is that I
> > don't get any stats tracked for this site.  I would assume that is
> > because webalizer is collecting info based on accesses of www.tiny.com
> > while I've sent all traffic through tiny.com instead.  Is there some
> > file or DB entry I could adjust to "trick" the stats processing into
> > picking up tiny.com stats for my perusal?
> 
> Not really, sorry.
> 
> Check out http://www.piwik.org, which is sort of a Google Analytics
without
> the scary "big brother" part of feeding all your data to Google. It
generates
> the best possible kind of stats that you can get (in realtime!) and Piwik
is
> open source and available free of charge.
> 
> You need to imbed a small snippet of code into every webpage that you
> want to have tracked by Piwik, but if you're using a CMS or dynamically
> generated webpages, that should be fairly easy to integrate.
> 
> I also have a PKG in my shop that makes Piwik available for every site
with a
> GUI integration, but you can of course just grab the tarball from
> www.piwik.org and install it manually on a site to play around with it.
> 
> --
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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