How does awstats, etc work?

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Todd_Z
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How does awstats, etc work?

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I want to develop a visitor tracking script but im wondering how to have the tracking work without including it on the index of the site I want to have it keep track of. How does awStats work if there isn't an include to their script on each page?
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Your webserver can be configured (and usually is) to keep a log of requests that have been made (access.log). This is the best source to perform analysis on.
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Ahhh i see, thanks timvw
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