[thelist] Best Statistics Server

[Allie Micka]

> Does Urchin offer dynamic page statistics? A quick review of the features
> did not talk about it, but maybe I missed it. Looks light and fast.

Yes.  It has a directive called DynamicURL, which allows using up to 5
sets of regular expressions on each script name and presents it as if it
were path info:

   /cgi-bin/showProduct.cgi?sessionId=123456789&productId=knobs
using:
   DynamicURL: (/cgi-bin/showProduct.cgi\?).*productId=(.*)
becomes:
   /cgi-bin/showProduct.cgi/knobs

Installation is a snap and configuration is really easy and intuitive -- 
they've written their config file to mimic the httpd.conf file.

The only problem I've had with urchin so far is filtering on multiple
fields. For example, I haven't successfully found a way to filter out
entries on both the user-agent (to hide my monitoring software) and
on the request (to filter out all that bunk .ida, .exe stuff).

Apart from that, it's great.
-- 
Allie Micka
pajunas interactive, inc.
http://pajunas.com