A design and implementation of a web server log file analyzer

  • Authors:
  • Yu-Hsin Cheng;Chien-Hung Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, Ling Tung University, Taichung, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin County, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

More and more enterprises use network to communicate with the suppliers or the customers, and also in receiving order forms, data transmission, produces goods, stock warehousing in all enterprise management procedure, carry on to the e-movement and enterprise competitive ability, this act not only may save the production cost, moreover may fast reflect the correlation information. But the enterprise owners or the website administrators often cannot judge precisely whether their commercial websites play the leading role in marketing function. In the settlement of this problem, an intelligent website analysis software can often provide good and effective assistance to business owners or website administrators, and then improve the marketing results of the websites. The website analysis software usually uses the log files in the system to produce statistical-related data, and then obtains the useful information through the analysis. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of an enterprise website analysis software we have developed, and by the modification and the expansion the Analog from free software to analyze the log files in the Apache web server, provides more important information about visitors. We provide a user friendly interface in the system for the enterprise administrators to accumulate the important information of log files, in establishing the system, we add on functions which detect illegal information, make the protective action, and provide the dynamic E-Mail report function to the user.