[Zope] Zope and Log File Analysis

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

Hmmmm, but said headers wouldn't be sufficient, unless I set custom ones
for each (CMF, in my case) content type.  Otherwise it'd mostly be
text/html, which wouldn't be much help.  I already use the whole
Apache/ReverseProxy setup, so when I talk about this, I do mean Apache
log files BTW.

I'll look at that idea though, I'd have to see if there are tools that
provide analysis of http headers somehow.

Thanks,
J.F.

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-bounces at zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces at zope.org] On Behalf Of
Andreas Jung
Sent: October 19, 2006 6:38 AM
To: Sascha Ottolski; zope at zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and Log File Analysis



--On 19. Oktober 2006 12:34:28 +0200 Sascha Ottolski
<sascha.ottolski at lalisio.com> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 22:03 schrieb Doyon, Jean-Francois:
>> The big problem I have is determining "file types" without having 
>> "file extensions", since many objects are name with a simple id that 
>> doesn't contain a typical file extension.
>>
>> This makes it supremely difficult to determine viewing statistics 
>> based on content type for example ... Or determining what should be 
>> concidered a "page view", and so on.
>
> one not so elegant solution to log real page views only: create your 
> own logger, and call it somewhere in you master template (probably 
> close to the end of it so logging doesn't happen if there was an 
> exception before that point).

The elegant solution is to run Apache in front of Zope as reverse proxy
and using Apaches CustomLog/Logformat option. The %...o option allows
you to log any HTTP header.

-aj