About:
The Webalizer is a Web server log analysis program. It is designed to scan web server log files in various formats and produce usage statistics in HTML format for viewing through a browser.

Author:
Brad Barrett [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.44/10.00 (31 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.webalizer.org/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/
Zip:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/
Changelog:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/CHANGES
Demo site:
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/sample/index.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Internet :: Log Analysis

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.20-01	24-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated Webalizer packages fix vulnerability
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Dec 4th 2002 02:52
  
• SuSE: remote privilege escalation in webalizer
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Nov 6th 2001 08:48
  
• Red Hat: Updated webalizer packages available
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Nov 2nd 2001 03:54
  

 Comments

[»] Error: Unable to restore run data (8)
by Mrs. Karen Debbie - Apr 4th 2006 10:54:40

Recently, my Webalizer froze and did not display any data after a specific day. It gave the following error:
Error: Unable to restore run data (8)
and something about a dns-cache.db lock.

To resolve this, I did the following:

Erased all my httpd log files (/etc/httpd/access_log).
Erased the old non-updating webalizer output pages at (var/www/html/usage) which varies by install.
Erased everything in (/var/lib/webalizer) which included:
dns_cache.db
webalizer.current
webalizer.current.bad
webalizer.hist

I then restarted webalizer by typing 'webalizer' at the SSH command prompt using PuTTy.

Although this erased all my logs and prior info, it got things running again. Next time, I'll try deleting the HTTPD log files last to see if it works.

Good Luck!

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[»] webalizer-2.01-10 patch for your consideration
by chongo - Feb 9th 2005 23:45:02

We have been successfully using modified webalizer-2.01-10 extensively on multiple sites, from the very large to the very small for some time now.

We have made a number of mods to the standard webalizer-2.01-10 distribution as well as built a number of tools to process multiple virtual sites as well as to create summary/rollup stats for all of the virtual sites on a given server.

The topic of this posting are the patches that we have applied to the webalizer-2.01-10 distribution. The URL:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/

contains 4 patches, 3 of which I recommend to all webalizer users and the 4th is a re-package of the geolizer patch.

The 0.basic.patch:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/0.basic.patch

does the following:

* ability to process very large log files (> 2GB in size)
* countries patch

Some of the entries on the list are not countries. In some cases the nation state status is contested. In other cases the entry is related to a territory that does not claim to be a country. In some cases what some claim is a country is in dispute by another country. And things like .arpa are not a country.

I recommend that one use the term 'location' instead of 'Nation' or 'Country' to avoid the whole mess. ;-)

Added are some missing locations (from the ISO UN codes and from GeoIP's list). Some location names have been corrected or changed to their official name. Added some more TLDs.

* avoid referrer spamming (IMPORTANT)
Spammers and other low-life forms have been stuffing the "top N referrer" table in order to get webalizer to generate links to their sites ... (perhaps because they think this will improve their search engine placement or perhaps because they wish to direct people to a poisoned web page in an effort to exploit some browser bug?). Whatever the reason, we don't need to give them their links.

This patch turns the "top N referrer" table into just values instead of A tag.

* correctly process log entries made during a leap second
* long referrer and search patch

Quite a few referrer and search strings are between 128 and 256 chars in length. Avoid truncating them.

The 1.64bit.patch:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/1.64bit.patch

does the following:

* avoid 32 bit counter overflow

For very busy sites, 32 bit signed counters can overflow. This is particularly when using webalizer to cover a long span of time. This patch converts a few values to be u_int64_t to avoid these numeric overflow problems.

The 2.hist.patch:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/2.hist.patch

does the following:

* extend the summary page for longer than 12 months

By default, webalizer only keeps the last 12 months of data. And at the start of a month, the oldest month is discarded resulting in only 11+ months of data.

This code gets around the 12 month limit by maintaining a history of older months in a parallel directory ../history.

See the webalizer page:

http://www.isthe.com/site/isthe/webalizer/usage/

for an example of this effect.

NOTE: After the 2.hist.patch has been applied, the track-hist tool:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/track_hist

should be run on a monthly basis. See the comments in the 2.hist.patch file as well as the track-hist tool itself for details.

The optional 3.geolizer.patch patch:

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/webalizer-patch/3.geolizer.patch

is If AND ONLY IF you use one the MaxMind (http://www.maxmind.com/) GeoIP database. It is a just a reapplication of the geolizer.patch that works for Un*x / Linux / GNU-Linux systems after the first 3 patches have been applied.

-=-=- in Summary -=-=-

At a minimum, I'd highly recommend the 0.basic.patch patch.

Large web sites will want the 1.64bit.patch patch (after the 0.basic.patch has been applied). It doesn't hurt smaller sites to have it either.

Sites that want to keep more than 12 months of webalizer stats need the 0.basic.patch, 1.64bit.patch and the 2.hist.patch as well as the track_hist tool.

chongo (Landon Curt Noll) /\oo/\
Share and enjoy! :-)

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chongo (Share and Enjoy) /\oo/\

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[»] Version 2.01.11
by Marcin Orlowski - Oct 23rd 2004 03:39:48

Since Webalizer author seems not to be interested in further development, I'd like to inform anyone insterested, that I've released un-official version 2.01.11. CHANGELOG and archives can be found there: http://wfmh.org.pl/carlos/.Enjoy ;)

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[»] Re: Version 2.01.11
by Benoît Rouits - Jan 17th 2006 10:05:09

Did you commit your polish translation to the awffull webalizer fork ? it could be nice.
> I've released un-official version
> 2.01.11.

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keep simple.

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[»] still maintained?
by contenido - Feb 11th 2004 07:12:40

I wrote a patch for webalizer to show human readable file sizes, but the author didn't respond...does anybody how to contact the author?

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[»] User Color configurable
by Benoît Rouits - Mar 17th 2003 01:49:51

I wrote a patch for webalizer that allow one to customize the colors of the charts with his/her own 10 colors map, in webalizer.conf. check webalizer-2.01-10-UserColor.diff if you want to put your own colors.

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keep simple.

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[»] Re: User Color configurable
by Benoît Rouits - Jan 17th 2006 09:59:38

This patch is now maintained an have a webalizer-usercolor freshmeat entry.
> I wrote a patch for webalizer that allow
> one to customize the colors of the
> charts with his/her own 10 colors map,
> in webalizer.conf.

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keep simple.

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[»] different log format
by Zsolt CSERNA - Oct 24th 2002 12:31:25

Hi!
I'm using different (really custom :) log format, and webalizer doesn't work. I known the webalizer's format, but I cannot use this program :(

Maybe I write a patch for webalizer for customing log input (because I think it's a great program).

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[»] Really the best tool
by Stanislaw Y. Pusep - Aug 27th 2002 00:34:56

I'm using Webalizer over a year, it's always great to process gzip'ped raw-IP logs. It's webazolver is nice too, but I wanted a bit more... So I attempted to integrate GeoIP into Webalizer, the result is a patch called geolizer, check it out here.
Once again, Webalizer kicks ass!

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[»] Very good...
by ciever2k - Dec 3rd 2001 12:53:45

I think it is a brilliant project. I use this proc since last 3 month and it worked good. Everybody should use this programm....

mfg ciever2k

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www.linux-sources.de

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[»] Webazlier + Zeus Web Server
by Michael Wells - Sep 16th 2001 20:53:40

There is a patched version of Webalizer which processes Zeus Web Server binary logs - http://support.zeus.com/products/v3/webalizer.html. Since these logs are around 4x smaller than normal ones, they're handy when performance or storage are critical. Webalizer runs a little faster on these too.

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[»] Re: Webazlier + Zeus Web Server
by deadsea - Nov 3rd 2001 10:08:44

There are also quite a few useful links to sites that you might want to check out at the Open Directory Project if you run this software.

There is a CGI front end, lists of search engines and sites to add to the configuration file, additional documentation, and ports listed there.

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[»] Great Tool
by Hugo Cisneiros - Mar 8th 2001 13:11:44

I've been testing webalizer and I'm just sure of it: this tool is great! It's a small, simple and fast solution for monitoring the logs of your Apache Web Server. If you didn't try it yet, I recommend to do this now. This last version gives the hability to PNG format (great) and to analyze squid and ftp logs. Just what I wanted for me.

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[»] Great program
by Indomitus - Jul 28th 1999 17:42:39

I have to agree with the other comments, Webalizer is a great program.
I have a cron job setup to do a logresolve so I don't have to have HostNameLookups on and then Webalizer runs on the resolved logfile. It works great.

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[»] webalizer
by Marius Zydyk - Jan 7th 1999 13:12:29

great util, running it here on over 300 virtual domains, very fast.

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