Re: Apache CGI Real time status logs

I have something called, of all things, Apache Log Viewer. Seems it could handle directly one of the types of logging - access, maybe - the other is error.

You can set some logging format stuff in your config file, so you might be able to tweak stuff to match the tooling. I looked at this a few years ago, haven't done anything lately.

YMMV

On 4/6/2015 8:42 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Many windows tools will also read them. I bet there are even online sites
that you can send the files and it will produce a report.

But you may simply look into something like Google Analytics instead. A
couple lines of JS code on each page (SSI footers work great for this!) and
you'll have access to MUCH more information that the Apache logs can
provide. Even real time data.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:41 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

But, if you did want to write your own, then you could do so. they are
stream files stored in /www/YOUR-INSTANCE/logs. I would use the
fopen/fgets/fclose family of IFS APIs to read them, should be fairly

simple

and fast. Then you'd need to parse the message and accumulate

statistics,

which might take a bit of coding -- certainly doable -- but here's where

I

think it might make a lot more sense to just grab an existing tool rather
than write your own... it's not really difficult, just... why reinvent

the

wheel?

Well, I think finding an existing tool is definitely the best option.
But there are at least a couple of reasons one *might* want to
reinvent the wheel. One is if their needs are really, really simple.
It is sometimes the case that getting a Linux tool to run on the i is
not as quick and easy as one might think. There are times when
writing your own simple tool, that you understand how to make work, is
simpler than figuring out how to adapt a Linux tool, and learning how
to use it. Not saying this is the most common case, just saying that
it happens.

Another reason would be for your own education or fun. If you use a
modern scripting language instead of RPG, that can drastically reduce
the amount of coding and potentially increase the amount of fun. (I
wouldn't dream of doing this in RPG from scratch. If I already had
very high-level wrappers for the system APIs, I might consider it.
But even then, I think I would just go straight to Python.)

John Y.
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