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Server maintenance

SERVER MAINTENANCE

Here methods for maintaining URL integrity and logfile analysis are discussed.

Believe it or not, the easy part of HTTP servers is bringing them up in the first place. The hard part is making them run smoothly after the initial installation. This is akin to maintaining your OPAC's database, weeding your collection, refining your bibliographic instruction techniques, and generating reports on usage. Because of this, truely useful HTTP servers are sometimes few and far between. Because of this it takes a commitment by your institution to not only purchase any necessary hardware, but more importantly, commit time to the server's upkeep.

SUBECTIONS
  1. URL integrity
  2. Analyzing logfiles

SEE ALSO

  1. Boutell.Com, Inc., "Wusage" - "Wusage is a statistics system that helps you determine the true impact of your web server. By measuring the popularity of your documents, as well as identifying the sites that access your server most often, wusage provides valuable marketing information. Practically all organizations, whether commercial or educational or nonprofit, need solid numbers to make credible claims about the World Wide Web. Wusage fills that need." <URL:http://www.boutell.com/wusage/>

  2. Gisle Aas, "LIBWWW-PERL-5" - "The libwww-perl distribution is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW client library. The library also contain modules that are of more general use." <URL:http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/>

  3. Roy Fielding, "wwwstat and splitlog" - "The wwwstat program will process a sequence of HTTPd common logfile format (CLF) access_log files and output a log summary in HTML format suitable for publishing on a website. The splitlog program will process a sequence of CLF (or CLF with a prefix) access_log files and split the entries into separate files according to the requested URL and/or vhost prefix." <URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat/>

  4. Roy Fielding, "MOMSpider: Mulit-owner Maintenance Spider" - "MOMspider is a web-roaming robot that specializes in the maintenance of distributed hypertext infostructures (i.e. wide-area webs). The program is written in Perl and, once customized for your site, should work on any UNIX-based system with Perl 4.036." <URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/MOMspider/>

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Last updated: 2004/12/23. See the release notes.
Author: Eric Lease Morgan (eric_morgan@infomotions.com)
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