I'm in the hunt for a cheap simple to use/install weblog report software for linux.

One that doesn't have a ton of dependancies, or requirements. Because simply put, web reporting software ONLY needs to read a an apache log file and make a report from it. It doesnt need useless bells and whistles.

So, I'd like to hear the opinions/reccomendations of what others out their think is a good piece of software to try out? I'm starting at a blank slate, with no ideas in mind.

Basically looking for:
- free
- small
- possibly html report generation
- reads apache logs (custom or combined)
- generates stats like hits, referrers, spiders, traffic time scales etc (the basic stuff).

Thanks!

for my apache log, I use a little (home made) bash script that "grep" some intressting information (like all accepted "200" action, refused "404" actions...) inside access.log, every few min, and write it into files. It is very basic, but it is also very small (but badly it will not not give you html report, except if you want to do a loooong coding work)

I like awstats. It's not very small and requires some processing power but prints nice raports.

If you are looking for an easy solution then use webalizer:


http://www.webalizer.com/

You can seperate it out for Virtual Domains with a little work and it gives you some nice stats with almost no upload work. I believe RH has a rpm.

Road

Thanks. I got this one installed with little effort. It errored like a mofo when I tried to compile with dns lookups, even though that machine even has its OWN BIND9 installed on it. So I turned off dns lookups and it installed quick and fine. I personally detest RPMs, so I went with the source code (only installs two files anyhow).

This one is quite nice. I broke it up into virtual domains, and run it incrementally each day on .1.gz'd logs that get generated by logrotate.d each day (these log files grow fairly large, so I dont like ot keep a month full around for very long). Pretty nice that it reads in incrementally like that, AND does gz files, and can be cronned with seperate config files per execution.

Just what I was looking for!

Only wished I could get the dns lookups to work, but it flat out refuses to compile with dns. It configures fine, but when I do "make" it throws a ton of unreferenced function errors and fails. So, for now, no dns lookups on IPs. Thats ok, because those arnt the most important parts of a web report =) The hits, stats, traffic, and refferrs are (agents to some extent, but not much).

Thanks for all the feedback, all of you. I think I will stick with webalizer for the time being, as it appears to do all I needed, with quick and simple configuration.