Stats questions

Hello, I'm new to Dreamhost and trying to get a sense of how the web logs/stats will work... some questions:

1. I can view the web stats for anyone on the same server, and they can read mine. Why is this? I can't change the permissions on my stats directory or the directory above (my home directory), as they are owned by root.

2. Do logs get gzipped? I don't mind using my own disk quota, but not without gzip. ;-) I guess I can always keep the 3-day option and move stats elsewhere, but 3 days is a bit tight if anything goes wrong.

3. Can I change where logs go? I'm moving applications from another web host that write to ~/logs and this is owned by root on Dreamhost! Ah well...

4. I'm guessing Dreamhost have a rewrite rule to point /stats/ to a file somewhere within /home/user/logs/. I want to be able to go to www.mysite.com/stats/ and get my own stats page, however I can't seem to make a rewrite rule that overrides the default one. Do Dreamhost put a [L] in it or something to stop further rewriting? Any way around it (apart from not use /stats/, which I guess isn't the end of the world!)Edited by lars_msh on 02/28/04 07:25 AM (server time).

> 1. I can view the web stats for anyone on the same server, and they can read mine. Why is this? I can't change the permissions on my stats directory or the directory above (my home directory), as they are owned by root.

Just a guess... Since the stats pages are served by apache, they need to be readable, and since the html stats pages are saved under the logs, well...

> 2. Do logs get gzipped?

Yes, generally after a couple days, except occasionally when they don't. :> Of about 180 days' logs, only 9 are not gzipped for me right now.

Good luck,

BobS

Thanks for the answer.

The security issue is interesting, because Dreamhost do things a bit differently to what I'm used to. Not saying it's necessarily bad mind you... I'm not sure there's an easy way around the stats issue - they could probably chown the stats to your user and provide a cgiwrapped script for viewing them, but maybe that's taking it all a bit too seriously! ;-)

I'm not running a commercial site where stats need to be confidential so I'll leave it at that.