Tips for Virtual Server Administrators

If you serve many "virtual" domains from the same physical machine or machines, this section will be of interest to you.

Important pricing note: Boutell.Com requires that you purchase a license for the number of domains you will analyze. However, we have a special ISP price of just $300 which allows you to analyze all of the virtual domains which you serve from a single physical location.

If You Have One Log File Per Server

If your server logs accesses for each virtual domain to a separate file, you do not need to take any special steps to use Wusage. Just set up a configuration file for each virtual domain in the normal manner.

If You Have One Log File For ALL Servers

If your server logs all accesses for all virtual domains to the same log file, you will want to examine the servername option, which allows you to indicate which virtual domain should be analyzed in a particular configuration. NEW IN 6.0: you will also want to examine the manyservers option, which can produce a single report analyzing all of the virtual servers present in your log files; this works extremely well together with the new directories report.

This only works if the virtual domain name is listed for each log entry. Most multiple-domain servers will do this, but certain Netscape servers unfortunately do not. For those servers there is unfortunately no way to determine which access applies to each server. See your log files and your server's documentation for more information.

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