New Web Server Wizard
   

The New Web Server Wizard guides you through the creation of a web server associated with a domain. The properties of the logfiles to be analyzed will be presented here.


Page 1 - Name The Web Server

Enter the external name of the web server.

Examples:

www
store
secure


Page 2 - Logfile Retrieval Method

Select the logfile retrieval method:

·    FTP transfer - Use this method when the logfiles are on a remote computer running an FTP server.  
 
Enter the FTP Login values for server, user name, and password.  
 
Click the Test Connection button to verify that the login parameters are correct for the connection.  
 
Logfile Location - Enter the directory path to the logfiles from the web server. Use the Browse button to connect to the FTP server and navigate to the proper logfile directory.  
 
 
·    File System - Use this method when the logfiles are on a local, or shared network drive.  

Enter the Driver letter and full path to location of the logfiles. Use the Browse button to navigate to long path locations.  
The user account on the machine running the ClickTracks server will need to have ample permissions to logfile data location.  


Page 3 - Include / Exclude

Choose which files to include and exclude from analysis. Separate each file mask with a semi-colon.

Example:

Exclude: mail;old;ftp
Include: .log;.zip;.gz

Carefully choose the Include and Exclude file masks to narrow down the logfile lists to be processed by the server.

Pay attention to logfile rotation schemes used by the web server. For example:

www.sitename.com.access      Today's logfile - text format
www.sitename.com.access.1.gz      Today -1 day logfile - .gz binary format
www.sitename.com.access.2.gz      Today -2 days logfile - .gz binary format

A proper include file mask for this file rotation would be:

www.sitename.com.access

This file mask would allow the current logfile and all rotated logfiles to be accessed and processed by the server.

For example, setting the file Exclusion entry to mail;old;ftp will mean files containing the pattern of 'mail', 'old', or 'ftp' in the name are never downloaded.

See Also Compressed / Rotated logfiles