Logging for multiple domains to a single log?

Hi all,

We are hosting 2 domains on IIS 6, one of which simply forwards to the
other. The logs for both sites appear inf different directories.
Since the 2 seperate domains are actually considered one site and
users are able to access the site through either, is there a way that
I can have both log to the same log file? Can I manually specify to
waht directory all the web activity gets logged?

Thanks

Ren

P.S. If there is not way of doing this, does someone have a
suggestion for a good free web analysis tool that I could run against
the logs, something similar to WebTrends? I am currently using
AWStats.

Andrey
Wed Jul 13 19:14:46 CDT 2005

wrecker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are hosting 2 domains on IIS 6, one of which simply forwards to the
> other. The logs for both sites appear inf different directories.
> Since the 2 seperate domains are actually considered one site and
> users are able to access the site through either, is there a way that
> I can have both log to the same log file? Can I manually specify to
> waht directory all the web activity gets logged?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ren
>
> P.S. If there is not way of doing this, does someone have a
> suggestion for a good free web analysis tool that I could run against
> the logs, something similar to WebTrends? I am currently using
> AWStats.

To my knowledge, in any case IIS creates a subdirectory with the
instance id name and I'm not aware how to change this behaviour. Also,
to the best of my knowledge, almost any log analyzing software can
understance "multi-instance" log files.

PS. Why don't you set up a single web site with URL parsing (and nthen
redirecting to an appropriate subdirs) instead of having 2 different
separated web sites?

-Andrey

Kristofer
Thu Jul 14 01:39:10 CDT 2005

Hi!

IIS 6.0 offers two ways to do centralized logging. This will give you one
log file for _all_ websites on the server. You cannot have one file for a
specified numbers of websites.

W3C Centralized Logging (Windows Server 2003 SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/6d593c76-94a2-4360-b93d-8ec2bc384f5a.mspx

IIS Centralized Binary Logging
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/13a4c0b5-686b-4766-8729-a3402da835f1.mspx

I am not really sure what "forward" means in this case, but it sounds like
you have two domain names, and the content of them both are the same. Is
this correct? If so, why not use only one website?

I think that Analog can read from two folders, and mix the logging into
one report.
www.analog.cx

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert (IIS MVP)
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com


wrecker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are hosting 2 domains on IIS 6, one of which simply forwards to the
> other. The logs for both sites appear inf different directories.
> Since the 2 seperate domains are actually considered one site and
> users are able to access the site through either, is there a way that
> I can have both log to the same log file? Can I manually specify to
> waht directory all the web activity gets logged?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ren
>
> P.S. If there is not way of doing this, does someone have a
> suggestion for a good free web analysis tool that I could run against
> the logs, something similar to WebTrends? I am currently using
> AWStats.

jeff
Thu Jul 14 06:25:55 CDT 2005

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:26:23 -0400, wrecker <wrecker@wrecked.com>
wrote:

>P.S. If there is not way of doing this, does someone have a
>suggestion for a good free web analysis tool that I could run against
>the logs, something similar to WebTrends? I am currently using
>AWStats.

There are plenty out there. Take a loook at:

http://www.iisfaq.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2550

You can always combine these in your analyisis, keeping separate logs
so you can more easily diagnose site specific problems.

Jeff

Telejob
Fri Jul 22 13:32:31 CDT 2005

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:26:23 -0400, wrecker <wrec...@wrecked.com>
wrote:

>P.S. If there is not way of doing this, does someone have a
>suggestion for a good free web analysis tool that I could run against
>the logs, something similar to WebTrends? I am currently using
>AWStats.

Try AlterWind Log Analyzer Professional http://www.alterwind.com