What Do The Logs Mean?

• Every visitor that requests a page will have their activity recorded, if the page has been set up as described here. The log will contain details of the visit.
• The log will typically contain entries like this:

  Time: 16/08/2003 10:34:30
  From: http://www.lycos.co.uk/cgi-bin/pursuit?mtemp=main&etemp=error&query=tv+components&cat=brit
    IP: 212.198.114.35
  Host: thelonius.tv-science.co.uk
  With: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
  Page: http://www.example.com/index.htm?option=yes&index=22
E-mail: spamplease@visitor.com
Domain: http://www.example.com/
 ERROR: 404 - URL Not Found.
 Destn: http://www.tv-science.co.uk/services/


• The Time: field has the date (dd/mm/yyyy) and time the Page: was served. The format of this date string can be changed, see log_datefmt.
• The From: field gives the link your visitor followed in order to arrive at your site.
  This is blank if the visitor has used a bookmark or has typed the URL into the Address Bar. It is also blank for visits by web robots.
  Useful information can often be obtained by following these links 'backwards' as it were.
• The IP: field contains the Internet Protocol Address of the visitor's machine. With dynamic IP, this value may change if the visitor has re-dialled their ISP between visits.
• The Host: field is an attempt to resolve the IP: field into a name, this operation can fail, so the field can be blank.
• The With: field describes the browser and its version. Other programs which read your web-pages (i.e. search engine robots) will return a different value here.
• The Page: field is the location of the page logged. Any query string submitted with the page will be present ¹.
• The E-mail: field contains an address returned by the browser, if one has been set. Most browser programs don't support this option; in this case the field will be blank.
• The Domain: field contains the domain that the logged page belongs to. This is useful if two of your domains are aliases and thus share common pages.
• The ERROR: field documents any error encountered by the server whilst performing the request.
• The Destn: field gives the URL of the external link followed, see the External Jump Logger.

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