{"id":476,"date":"2023-04-11T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:09:59","slug":"goaccess-parsing-issues-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"GoAccess parsing issues resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since Webalizer fell into disrepair some years ago, I dabbled with GoAccess<\/a> for website stats and sort of got it working. Several OS or Apache updates later it decided to stop working and I never found the time to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, todays persistent rain and nothing better to do, I resolved to fix why GoAccess refused to parse my Apache logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial fault seemed to stem from GoAccess not being able to decide if I had CLF ( Common Log Format) or Combined Log Format. Apache was insistent that I had set Combined Log Format looking at httpd.conf, but GoAccess complained on start-up that this was not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As this is a hobby server and I had not needed to rotate the logs for several years I can only guess the httpd-access.log had been corrupted or mixed with CLF at some point, so a forced log rotation stopped the error messages on startup and allowed the basic details of the log to be parsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However the referrer and user agent still was not parsed. It seems there is a error in the sample goaccess.conf file and the %R and %u fields need double quotes to be parsed fully. A post way back from 2014<\/a> seemed to flag this but the MAN page still does not pick this up, maybe its a FreeBSD specific issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhoo, fixing this is the Combined Log file format parse string now has the file being parsed happily. The OS and Browser detections still seem a bit pants, Safari and Apple iOS and MacOS seemed to be lumped under Linux, but job for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analytics can be found here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Webalizer fell into disrepair some years ago, I dabbled with GoAccess for website stats and sort of got it working. Several OS or Apache updates later it decided to stop working and I never found the time to fix. Well, todays persistent rain and nothing better to do, I resolved to fix why GoAccess … <\/p>\n

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