Analog 6.0/Win32 - Web Log File Analysis Tool

∟Analog - Web Server Log Files and Analysis Tool

∟Analog 6.0/Win32 - Web Log File Analysis Tool

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install 'Analog 6.0' on Windows for Web server log file analysis.

The Web server is doing a great job to record every HTTP request in the log file. You can open it in a text editor and look at it. But Web server could receive hundreds or thousands of requests a day. The log file will have thousands of records. You definitely need a tool to analyze it and generate some statistics reports.

One of the most popular Web log file tool is called "analog", first released on June 21, 1995, by Stephen Turner. "analog" was available on http://www.analog.cx. But that Website is closed now.

"analog" was then renamed as "Analog CE" and maintained by C-Amie. Downloads were available at https://www.c-amie.co.uk/software/analog/. But that download page is moved to GitHub now.

So if you want to download the latest version of Analog CE, you need to go to GitHub C-Amie's GitHub page at https://github.com/c-amie/analog-ce.

Here is what I did to download the older version for my Windows system of many years ago.

1. Go to http://www.analog.cx/ and download analog_60w32.zip. The file size is about 1,717 KB.

2. Unzip analog_60w32.zip to c:\local\analog.

3. Test it in a command window:

herong> cd c:\local\analog

herong> analog
analog: analog version 6.0/Win32
analog: Warning E: Redirecting future diagnostic messages to error...
  (For help on all errors and warnings, see docs/errors.html)

4. Open c:\local\analog\report.html with Web browser. You should see a nice statistics report generated from a sample log file:

Web Server Statistics for [my organisation]
Program started at Sun-dd-Mmm-yyyy 14:17. 
Analysed requests from Fri-31-Dec-1999 10:11 to Tue-04-Jan-2000 ...

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