Jules Bartow: GoDaddy Site Analytics, User History, Log Parser, Hit Counter Example Tutorial

For $2.99 a month GoDaddy.com provides Site Analytics, which reads your Microsoft web server's IIS log files and summarizes your hit counter along with IP addresses for you similar to WebTrends

You can do this yourself with open source and free code if you have Admin rights to your server, i.e. you can configure request logging in IIS Manager.

Then use Log Parser to read XML, tab and space separated files, active directory, Windows registry, and Netmon captures. Output as charts, text, or send to a SYSLOG server.

Because you don't have access to the log files at GoDaddy, some useful tools such as Microsoft's Log Parser and Apache Log4Net are of limited use.

Log Parser does charts.

Download the Apache Software Foundation port of Log4j for C# for ASP.Net at http://logging.apache.org/log4net/download.html

W3SVC Extended Log Format fields:

date
time
s-sitename
s-ip
cs-method
cs-uri-stem
cs-uri-query
s-port
cs-username
c-ip
cs(User-Agent)
sc-status
sc-substatus

sc-win32-status

Unfortunately, in the free, shared hosting plans you don't have access to the log files for a number of reasons. However, if you did, you could use code snippets from http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/103/Build-your-own-Whois-Lookup-with-ASP.NET-and-jQuery :

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="IPLookup.aspx.cs" Inherits="IPLookup" %>

DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<title>Untitled Pagetitle>

body { font-family:Verdana;font-size:76%; }

pre { font-size:10pt; }

span { cursor:pointer; }

#dns { float:left; }

#calendar{ float:left;width:350px; }

#loading { left:300px;z-index:100;position:absolute; }

style>

head>

<body>

id="form1" runat="server">

<asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server"

onselectionchanged="Calendar1_SelectionChanged" />

<asp:Literal ID="ip_addresses" runat="server" />

div>

form>

body>

html>

protected void Calendar1_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

ip_addresses.Text = "";

List<string> IPs = new List<string>();

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

DateTime date = Calendar1.SelectedDate;

string filedate = string.Format("{0:yyMMdd}", date);

string path = @"D:\Logs\ex" + filedate + ".log";

if (File.Exists(path))

{

string content;

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path))

{

content = sr.ReadToEnd();

}

Regex re = new Regex(@"\w\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}\w");

MatchCollection mc = re.Matches(content);

foreach (Match mt in mc)

{

if (mt.ToString() != "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx")

IPs.Add(mt.ToString());

}

var result = IPs.Select(i => i).Distinct().ToList();

foreach (string ip in result)

{

sb.Append("" + ip + "\n");

}

ip_addresses.Text = "

" + sb.ToString() + "

";





    }

    else

    {

        ip_addresses.Text = "No logs available for that date";

    }

}



private static string GetHtmlPage(string url)

{

    String result;

    WebResponse response;

    WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

    response = request.GetResponse();

    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))

    {

        result = sr.ReadToEnd();

        sr.Close();

    }

    return result;

}




private static string PostHtmlPage(string url, string post)

{

    ASCIIEncoding enc = new ASCIIEncoding();

    byte[] data = enc.GetBytes(post);

    WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

    request.Method = "POST";

    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

    request.ContentLength = data.Length;

    Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream();

    stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);

    stream.Close();

    WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

    string result;

    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))

    {

        result = sr.ReadToEnd();

        sr.Close();

    }

    return result;

}



[WebMethod]

public static string GetWhois(string ip)

{

    string response = "";

    string arin = "https://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=" + ip;

    string ripe = "http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=" + ip + "&do_search=Search";

    string apnic = "http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl";

    string lacnic = "http://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/whois?lg=EN";

    string lacnicFields = "query=" + ip;

    string apnicFields = ".cgifields=object_type&.cgifields=reverse_delegation_domains&do_search=Search&" +

                         "form_type=advancedfull_query_string=&inverse_attributes=None&object_type=All&searchtext=" + ip;




    response = GetHtmlPage(arin);

    Regex pre = new Regex(@"
[.\n\W\w]*</p>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);


    Match m = pre.Match(response);

    if (pre.IsMatch(response))

    {

        if (m.Value.IndexOf("OrgName:    RIPE Network Coordination Centre") > 0)

        {

            response = GetHtmlPage(ripe);

            m = pre.Match(response);

        }

        else if (m.Value.IndexOf("OrgName:    Asia Pacific Network Information Centre") > 0)

        {

            response = PostHtmlPage(apnic, apnicFields);

            m = pre.Match(response);

        }

        else if (m.Value.IndexOf("OrgName:    Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry") > 0)

        {

            response = PostHtmlPage(lacnic, lacnicFields);

            m = pre.Match(response);

        }

        return m.Value;

    }

    else

    {

        return "
No Data

";


    }

}





<script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery-1.3.2.min.js">script> 

<script type="text/javascript"> 

  $(document).ready(function() {

    $("span").each(function() {

      $(this).click(function() {

        $("#loading").html("");

        $("#dns").empty();

        $.ajax({

          type: "POST",

          contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

          data: "{ip: '" + $(this).html() + "'}",

          url: "IPLookup.aspx/GetWhois",

          dataType: "json",

          success: function(response) {

            $("#loading").empty();

            $("#dns").html(response.d);

          }

        });

      });

    });

  });

script>