This section explains how you can identify a user's country name, the operating system type, and the browser type by analyzing the server log line. By identifying the country name, we can easily identify the locations from where our site is attracting more attention and where it is getting less attention. Let's perform the following steps to identify the country name, operating system type, and browser type from the Apache log line:
We will use the open source
geoip
library to identify the country name from the IP address. Add the following dependencies to thepom.xml
file:<dependency> <groupId>org.geomind</groupId> <artifactId>geoip</artifactId> <version>1.2.8</version> </dependency>
Add the following repository to the
pom
.xml
file:<repository> <id>geoip</id> <url>http://snambi.github.com...