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reading IIS log files
Name: Shmanda Date: November 25, 2005 at 13:55:37 Pacific OS: WinXPPro CPU/Ram: plenty
Comment:
Hi. I have a site hosted on IIS. My host provides .log files which I feed to Web Log Analyzer. Unfortunately it only tells me that there were a number of 404 errors, but doesn't mention what the page/item users were trying to access. Is this info even in a raw log file? I opened it up in Excel and didn't see anything like that. Thanks :)
Name: Dr. Nick Date: November 27, 2005 at 15:25:50 Pacific
Reply:
The IIS log files should contain the results for all actions requested of the server along with their status. For example, a raw log with a single request that resulted in a 404 might look like this:
#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2005-11-27 23:21:19 #Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status 23:21:19 127.0.0.1 GET /missing_page.html 404
Note the bold line and the 404 status.
Perhaps they are logging differently. I use the W3C Extended log format (the default logging format for IIS). They might also not include the sc-status field (or equivalent) which shows the status (200 for OK or 404 for invalid resource).
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