Setup GoAccess (CowAxess) Web Log Analyzer on Windows
#GoAccess #WebServerLogging #Windows
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...
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What is GoAccess?
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GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. - https://goaccess.io/
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Installing GoAccess (CowAxess)
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01. Download XAMPP https://sourceforge.net/projects/xamp...
02. Download CowAxess https://itefix.net/cowaxess
03. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redis...
04. Install Microsoft Visual C++
05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP .zip file ≫ Extract All...
06. Right click the downloaded CowAxess .zip file ≫ Extract All...
07. Run the CowAxess installer, install to C:\Program Files\CowAxess
08. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
09. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
10. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
11. Click the Start button next to Apache
12. Navigate to C:\Program Files\CowAxess
13. Double click the cowaxess.cmd file
14. Paste the following command to start the real-time monitor, changing the paths to access.log and monitor.html as needed
goaccess "C:\\Program Files\\xampp\\apache\\logs\\access.log" -o "C:\\Program Files\\xampp\\htdocs\\monitor.html" --log-format=COMBINED --real-time-html
15. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/monitor.html
16. Welcome to GoAccess hosted on Windows
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