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Visitor is an Apache2 log analyzer that can show which people visited your website. I found a simple cron-based setup [http://www.codealpha.net/441/easy-apache-log-statistics-using-visitors/ here]. The setup for our Debian system goes like this:

First install ''ip2host'' and ''visitor'' using the well understood
 sudo apt-get install ip2host visitor
It will install the two requested packages, and probably also some extra packages like ''graphviz'' and ''ttf-liberation''.

Next we create a cache directory for ''ip2host''
 sudo mkdir /var/cache/ip2host

Then we create the following script, which we save in ''/etc/cron.daily/visitors'':
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#!/bin/bash
 
MYIP="192.168" # i want to exclude my home network from the logs
SERVERIP="222.222.222.222" # my server's ip
REPORTDIR="/var/www/webstats" # folder where to store reports, this folder must exist
ALOGDIR="/var/log/apache2" # folder containing the logs
VISITORS="/usr/bin/visitors -A --exclude wp-cron.php --exclude robots.txt" # i exclude some files from the reports
IP2H="ip2host --cache=/var/cache/ip2host/cache.db"
GREPOPTIONS="-hv -e ^$MYIP -e ^$SERVERIP" # exclude my home network and my server's ip from the logs
 
# we create a tmp file that will hold the logs
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
if [[ ! -f "$TMPFILE" ]]; then
  echo "tmpfile doesn't exist."
  exit 1
fi
 
# if you only have one site, or you want all the logs in a single report
/bin/grep $GREPOPTIONS $ALOGDIR/access*.log{.1,} 2>/dev/null > $TMPFILE # get all the logs into the tmpfile, notice the GREPOPTIONS variable.
# resolve all the ips and generate the reports, note that "--trails --prefix http://www.domain.com" is optional it's only needed for generating trails stats
($IP2H < $TMPFILE ) | $VISITORS --trails --prefix http://www.domain.com - > $REPORTDIR/stats.html  
 
# -OR-
# if you have multiple vhosts/prefixes and want separate reports, you can use this:
# replace all the "www prefix1 prefix2 prefix3" by your own prefixes (as in http://PREFIX.domain.com)
for name in www prefix1 prefix2 prefix3; do
  /bin/grep $GREPOPTIONS $ALOGDIR/access-$name.log{.1,} 2>/dev/null > $TMPFILE
  ($IP2H < $TMPFILE ) | $VISITORS --trails --prefix http://$name.domain.com - > $REPORTDIR/stats-$name.html
done
 
rm -f $TMPFILE
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