Old server logs never die, they just slowly swallow up your disk space. Rolling them over and compressing them at regular intervals can help shrink them, but you'll eventually have to do something with them. Here's a way to offload server-access data to a SQL database, so it can be analyzed later. Tools used include the mySQL database program, Perl, the Apache Web server, the PHP server-side scripting language, and the Analog analysis program, all of which are Open-Source programs. The scope will be to use general techniques that can be applied to other databases and Web servers. You can expand upon these basics to teach your site more about your visitors.
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