Web server logfiles contain a lot of useful information, but they are too long and verbose to read. In order to get an overview of the state of your website, you will need a tool to analyze the contents of its access logfiles. One such tool is called Webalizer; it's easy to install and integrates well with Webmin. Webalizer parses your logfiles and generates a graphical report in HTML turning your logfiles into clear graphs and tables.
Follow the steps described in the recipe installing software packages in Chapter 1, Setting Up Your System, to install the webalizer package on your system.
Make a note of the location of the Apache access logfile you want to analyze. In this recipe, we will prepare a Webalizer report for the website hosted at example.com with an access logfile stored in /var/log/apache2/example.com-access.log. Perform the following steps to analyze logfiles using Webalizer:
Make a directory to store the Webalizer...