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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Which (virtual) host was visited? Tuning Apache log files, and Python analysis

We host a number of domains on our main server, and in order to avoid fragmentation of log files, we keep a sinle composite log. Rather than use a standard logfile format henceforth, I've changed the second field to carry the virtual host name accessed for the request, as that was missing up until this morning.

So in my server config
  LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
has become
  LogFormat "%h %v %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

Gone - Remote logname (from identd, if supplied).
Added - The canonical ServerName of the server serving the request.

I've written a program (in Python) to take a look at the log file - see [here] - and run from the command line that gives:
  -bash-4.1$ /home/wellho/trainee/y202/pytop
   13358 - www.wellho.net
    2719 - www.firstgreatwestern.info
     223 - www.melkshamchamber.org.uk
     100 - melksh.am
      62 - www.twcrp.org.uk
      39 - www.savethetrain.org.uk
      39 - www.across-the-pond.co.uk
      33 - www.wellhousemanor.co.uk
      30 - twhc.org.uk
      16 - transwilts.org.uk
       5 - thebutlerdidit.info
       1 - railcustomer.info
  -bash-4.1$


The program's also got a web wrapper - if called up on the web, it uses a different formatter:
  output = '{0:6d} - {1:s}'
  try:
    web = sys.argv[1] == "-w"
    if web: output = '<tr><td>{0:d}</td><td><a href="http://{1:s}" target="avh">{1:s}</a></td></tr>'
  except:
    pass

and later in my code:
  print output.format(counter[site],site)

And you can see the current results [here].

P.S. There's another quick demo web analysis program (showing its age) [here].
(written 2015-01-23)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
A606 - Web Application Deployment - Apache httpd - log files and log tools
  [376] What brings people to my web site? - (2005-07-13)
  [1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots? - (2007-06-19)
  [1503] Web page (http) error status 405 - (2008-01-12)
  [1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02)
  [1656] Be careful of misreading server statistics - (2008-05-28)
  [1761] Logging Cookies with the Apache httpd web server - (2008-08-20)
  [1780] Server overloading - turns out to be feof in PHP - (2008-09-01)
  [1796] libwww-perl and Indy Library in your server logs? - (2008-09-13)
  [3015] Logging the performance of the Apache httpd web server - (2010-10-25)
  [3019] Apache httpd Server Status - monitoring your server - (2010-10-28)
  [3027] Server logs - drawing a graph of gathered data - (2010-11-03)
  [3087] Making the most of critical emails - reading behind the scene - (2010-12-16)
  [3443] Getting more log information from the Apache http web server - (2011-09-16)
  [3447] Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload - (2011-09-18)
  [3491] Who is knocking at your web site door? Are you well set up to deal with allcomers? - (2011-10-21)
  [3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours - (2011-12-17)
  [3670] Reading Google Analytics results, based on the relative populations of countries - (2012-03-24)
  [3974] TV show appearance - how does it effect your web site? - (2013-01-13)
  [3984] 20 minutes in to our 15 minutes of fame - (2013-01-20)
  [4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server - (2014-09-27)
  [4491] Web Server Admin - some of those things that happen, and solutions - (2015-05-10)

A604 - Web Application Deployment - Apache httpd - virtual hosts
  [690] Adding Virtual Hosts - (2006-04-19)
  [1687] Virtual Hosting on Apache httpd - a primer example - (2008-06-25)
  [1896] Virtual Hosts and Virtual Servers - (2008-11-20)
  [3132] Virtual Hosting with Apache http server - an overall scheme, and avoiding common pitfalls - (2011-01-14)
  [3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains - (2012-01-04)

Y202 - Python on the Web
  [237] Crossfertilisation, PHP to Python - (2005-03-06)
  [426] Robust checking of data entered by users - (2005-08-27)
  [433] FTP - how to make the right transfers - (2005-09-01)
  [903] Pieces of Python - (2006-10-23)
  [1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails) - (2008-08-08)
  [2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua - (2009-06-14)
  [2365] Counting Words in Python via the web - (2009-08-18)
  [4089] Quick and easy - showing Python data hander output via a browser - (2013-05-15)
  [4536] Json load from URL, recursive display, Python 3.4 - (2015-10-14)


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