[thelist] web stats for multiple sites

[John DeStefano]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Eduardo Kienetz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:47 PM, John DeStefano wrote:
>> Eduardo Kienetz wrote:
>>>
>>> You mean, have a consolidated report for a same domain? You have it
>>> hosted on multiple machines (dns round-robin) ?
>>>
>>> Can you explain it better, perhaps with fake domains examples?
>>
>> Yes and no: I think the main goal is to play with load balancing,  
>> but at the
>> moment, I think I'd (they'd) like to cull separate stats for  
>> separate host
>> via one interface, like the following:
>> host1.mydomain.com
>> host2.mydomain.com
>> ...
>> hostn.mydomain.com
>>
>> I currently have AWStats installed on one of these hosts, and  
>> culling stats
>> from that host's Apache, but they'd like to see a unified grouping  
>> of stats
>> from more than one host.  Does that make sense?  Is this possible?
>
> Ah, that is very likely possible if you download the raw log files and
> add them together.
> cat logfile1 logfile2 logfile3 > biglogfile
>
> Then you set up a new AWStats to read the biglogfile.

Hmmm ... that might work.  Thanks!

BTW, I may as well ask: is there a simple stats package that will just  
track basic stats, like pages served per (time)?  I think I'll stick  
with AWStats, but if there's something simple to set up that can do  
this for multiple sites, it would be worth a look.