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4:26 pm
January 14, 2009

ltalanki

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Hi,

I want to use session id in the cookie part of the log file instead of client ip for extracting the visits. Can I do that in Awstats?

I am attaching lines of my log. Can anyone tell me where to make changes to the awstats.pl file.

1. I think instead of using the IP we can use the session Id in the .pl file to get the users on the server?

2. Can I also get list of users whose duration is more than 1hr instead of all the unique visitors?

example LOG file lines:

#Fields: date time s-sitename s-compute
rname s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri
-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs-versi
on cs(User-Agent) cs(Cookie) cs(Referer
) cs-host sc-status sc-substatus sc-win
32-status sc-bytes cs-bytes time-taken

2006-07-22 02:02:56 86400635 SAVANNA 19
2.22.0.27 GET /Default.aspx – 80 – 192.
168.0.2 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatibl
e;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0) BIGipServe
rDHSR=45100.20480.0000;+ASP.NET_Session
Id=mqiyrb45k5mkn5552n1i0h55;+DHSRTestCO
OKIE=DHSRTestCOOKIE;+.DHSR=E7B6F31A84FE
1F8E80D8B20F985A5C574AE4945715BC5DB9C43
3A8994CFC163CCAB453A2EAAE06038EFE848D72
7DFEC7DC7C1385FB7946A6AC57F62490EECC8E2
08A046A31BB2621 DHSR.com 200 0 0 1058 5
33 0

2006-07-22 02:02:56 86400635 SAVANNA 19
2.22.0.27 GET /images/arrow_L.gif – 80
- 192.168.0.2 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(com
patible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0) BIGi
pServerDHSR=45100.20480.0000;+ASP.NET_S
essionId=mqiyrb45k5mkn5552n1i0h55;+DHSR
TestCOOKIE=DHSRTestCOOKIE;+.DHSR=E7B6F3
1A84FE1F8E80D8B20F985A5C574AE4945715BC5
DB9C433A8994CFC163CCAB453A2EAAE06038EFE
848D727DFEC7DC7C1385FB7946A6AC57F62490E
ECC8E208A046A31BB2621 DHSR.com 200 0 0
513 551 0

Thanks,

2:34 am
January 15, 2009

Jean-Luc

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Hi,

There is no need to edit awstats.pl in order to use the session ID instead of the client IP. I would use the cs(Cookie) field as %host in the AWStats LogFormat definition. If the complete cookie field is not convenient, you can filter the log file with a program that will extract the session ID before you pass it to awstats.pl .

Regarding your second question, I do not know of any easy way to identify the users who visit the site during more than one hour. This would demand serious changes in the AWStats source code.

10:01 am
January 15, 2009

ltalanki

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Thanks for the info.

Lee

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