Bug 33782 – modlogan does not work out of the box

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ole Tange 2003-11-18 13:53:00 UTC]

One of the really nice thing about Gentoo is that usually stuff is installed 
with reasonable defaults: You do not have to tweak them to get the program 
working. 
 
modlogan is not in that category. Modlogan forces you to configure it before it 
works. This makes it harder to install as you will need to understand how 
modlogan works - even if what you want to do is a simple web analyser. 
 
A simple, reasonable default would be nice. 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 12:39:03 UTC]

Sebastian, I'll need your help on this one. I know nothing about modlogan

[Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 13:21:46 UTC]

Me neither, sorry. I only know Jan, the author of ModLogAn, and wanted to try it but ran into trouble when using the version portage.

[Comment 3 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 10:51:09 UTC]

the question is:
how would a sane default configuration look like ?

one possible solution would be
- create a folder named (eg.) /etc/modlogan.d
- a directory somewhere where we can put the created html files and stuff into
  (somewhere under /var/www/ would be perfect :)

and every service modlogan has a parser for could put a default configuration file
under /etc/modlogan.d/ (like apache modules do...)

a cron script:

for i in /etc/modlogan.d/*; do
   modlogan -c $i
done

would create the stats for every service...

 

[Comment 4 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-11-27 10:35:57 UTC]

i'm creating some sample default config files now
wil have to check what's the most sane way to organize this stuff...

[Comment 5 Roman Weber 2003-12-01 08:18:41 UTC]

When you release a new ebuild, please remove the virtual/x11 dependency.
It isn't needed.
Roman

[Comment 6 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:17:19 UTC]

Created attachment 21988 [details]
updated modlogan ebuild

[Comment 7 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:17:47 UTC]

Created attachment 21989 [details]
new sample.conf

[Comment 8 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:18:10 UTC]

Created attachment 21990 [details]
new sample.def.conf

[Comment 9 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:24:51 UTC]

Created attachment 21991 [details]
updated modlogan ebuild

[Comment 10 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:25:24 UTC]

Created attachment 21992 [details]
updated apache config for modlogan

[Comment 11 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:25:51 UTC]

finally ... here it is, the updated modlogan ebuild

sample configuration has been updated and is now kept under
${FILESDIR}/${PV}/

modlogan now has a X use flag, which en-/disables X11 support

logs are put into /home/httpd/modlogan

any comments ?

[Comment 12 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 12:49:25 UTC]

only one comment, I think /home/httpd is deprecated in gentoo now.  I think we've moved to the /var/www layout, but I'd like someone from the web-apps team confirm all this.

[Comment 13 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-10 13:20:09 UTC]

ok, will change it, if /var/www is the right place (?)

[Comment 14 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2003-12-17 16:55:18 UTC]

modlogan-0.8.10-r1 is in the tree now (currently ~x86)