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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 397 Optional component to install with Apache In this chapter, I will speak about three-useful external program you may install in your Linux server. These programs has been build to be used with Apache Web Server and only if you are intended to use Apache in your organization, if this is not the case, you can skip this chapter and continue through the rest of this book. To begin we’ll talk about Webalizer which is a web server log file analysis program, then about FAQ-O-Matic which can be used when you want a FAQ list, or a bug-tracing database, documentation and much more in your server. Finaly we’ll talk about one sophisticate and very interesting program named Webmail, which allow you to offer free mail account to your clients or access and read your mail in a secure manner. Linux Webalizer Overview A web server like Apache logs all predefined log entry information into a text file that can be viewed and analyzed by the web administrator. This file can also be treated by a special program, which will produce the information in a graphical presentation for easily and better format to interpreted. As explained in the README file of Webalizer: The Webalizer is a web server log file analysis program, which produces usage statistics in HTML format for viewing with a browser.  The results are presented in both columnar and graphical format, which facilitates interpretation. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to display usage by site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser) and country (user agent and referrer are only available if your web server produces Combined log format files). These installation instructions assume  Commands are Unix-compatible. The source path is “/var/tmp”  (other paths are possible). Installations were tested on RedHat Linux 6.1. All steps in the installation will happen in superuser account “root”. Webalizer version number is 1_30-04 Packages Webalizer Homepage: http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ You must be sure to download: webalizer-1_30-04-src.tgz Compilation Decompress the tarball (tar.gz). [root@deep /]# cp webalizer-version-src.tgz /var/tmp/ [root@deep /]# cd /var/tmp/ [root@deep tmp]# tar xzpf webalizer-version-src.tgz