Apache Stats Module for Virtual Hosts

[golfing22]

Sorry in advance if this is a duplicate story but anyways my current situation is, I'm hosting a website with multiple subdomains that are defined by Virtual Host. I have already have a good stats module for my CMS webpage, but I'm hosting a podcast for my friend (he has his own subdomain/virtual host) and he want to be able to view how many hits he gets. I've tried a few different stats modules but they seem to group all the virtual hosts as one. What I really want to do is be able to see how many people have gone to the subdomain only.

Thanks,
golfing22

 

[smah]

I think that the easiset way is to create a different log file within each virtual host container. Then analyze the individual log files using your preferred log analyzer.

Another alternative is to add the virtual host (%v) to the existing log format string. Then you'd need to filter/parse the combined log file for whichever virtual hosts that you want to analyze.

 

[RhythmAce]

I like the way smah suggests with having a log for each sub-domain. But if you just want to count page hits, then you don't really need a full blown analyzer. You count just use a hit counter on the main paig of his site. You can find some good ones here:

http://php.resourceindex.com

or

http://cgi.resourceindex.com.

 

[golfing22]

Thanks a ton smah and rhythmace, I took your advice and create a separate log file location for the subdomain. The way it's set up now is that is creates a log file at "/

http://www/podcast/logs/access_log",

my question is if it's a big deal that anybody could access the logs via web-browser. I'm wondering if I should create a htaccess file for the logs folder or not.

Thanks
golfing22

 

[smah]

It's generally not a good idea to have your logs accessible through your web server. Do you have a reason for doing this?