The form interface is suitable for ordinary users to use, but it needs to be set up by a system administrator or other expert. In order to set it up, you need to know what CGI programs are, where they live on your server, and how to set up their permissions properly. It would also be hepful if you can write HTML forms. I shall assume this level of background knowledge for the rest of this section.
Warning: CGI programs can contain security loopholes which allow an unscrupulous user to harm your system. (If you don't know about this, you shouldn't be running CGI programs at all.) I have tried to make this form interface safe, but I cannot guarantee it, and take no responsibility if anything goes wrong. You use it at your own risk. (See the licence.)
The form interface consists of two parts: a form to choose the options, and a cgi program to interpret them and pass them to the analog program. You don't in fact need the form at all: if you want to create a link to the cgi program, with the arguments passed in the URL in the usual way, then that's fine.
To compile the cgi program, you first need to edit the top of anlgform.c to indicate where analog lives on your system. Then type make form, which should compile this source into a program called anlgform.cgi. (On Windows 95 & NT, the cgi program is compiled already: it assumes that analog is at \Program Files\analog\analog.exe, so you must move analog there if necessary.) Then put the cgi program wherever your server can find it. Make sure that analog is executable by the server, and that the logfile and domains file are readable. You will probably need to use the full path name for these files.
The form anlgform.html which is distributed with the program should only be regarded as an example form. Almost every configuration command has a counterpart in the CGI program, and so you can add to the form options to do almost anything you want. (The main exceptions are aliases, which are too complicated, and HEADERFILE and FOOTERFILE, which would allow people to view any file on your system.) I shall give the full list in a minute.
Before you use the form, you must edit the action at the top to indicate where anlgform.cgi lives on your server. I have also included two other important options at the top, commented out. First, it is often useful to set the logfile to be analysed (or allow the user to choose it), with a field with name="lo". Secondly, some servers need a timezone to be set in a field with name="TZ", or all the times will be wrong. If you are on Unix, you can put any of the standard timezones in this field: the correct one may well be in your own TZ environment variable.
You can specify other configuration files to be included. When analog is called by the CGI program, it first processes the default configuration file as usual. Then it processes any configuration file specified by an argument with name cg. Then it processes all the other arguments which the CGI program specifies. After that, it processes any configuration file specified by an argument with name cm. Finally, it processes the mandatory configuration file as usual.
If the option qv=1 is sent to the CGI program, then analog is not run, but a list of the configuration commands which would have been sent to analog is printed instead. This is useful for checking that the CGI program is working properly. It can also be used for using the form to produce a configuration file.
lc uc value
ON/OFF q p 1 for on, 0 for off
GRAPH g h
ROWS r s
COLS c d
lc uc value
ON/OFF q p 1 for on, 0 for off
FLOOR f g Excluding floor method
Floor method h i r, p, b or d
SORTBY s t 0 for requests, 1 for pages, 2 for bytes,
3 for date, 4 for alphabetical, 5 for random
SUB j (Where applicable)
SUBFLOOR w x As above
Subfloor method y z As above
SUBSORTBY u v As above
COLS c d
Report INCLUDE l m
Report EXCLUDE n o
Browser b Referrer f File r Host s User u Virtual host vSecond letter:
LOWMEM k INCLUDE x EXCLUDE z
Command Code Value/Notes ALLBACK ab 1 for on, 0 for off BASEURL ba CASE ca 1 for sensitive, 0 for insensitive CONFIGFILE cg/cm See above COMPSEP cp DNSGOODHOURS da DNSBADHOURS db DECPOINT de DOMFILE df DIRSUFFIX di DNSFILE dn Also sets DNS READ; o/wise DNS is NONE FROM fr MINGRAPHWIDTH gw HOSTNAME hn HOSTURL hu IMAGEDIR ie LANGUAGE la Name of language: LANGFILE overrides CACHEFILE lc LANGFILE lf Overrides LANGUAGE LOGO lg LOGFORMAT lm Format for all logfiles LOGFILE lo LASTSEVEN ls LOGTIMEOFFSET lt For all logfiles REFLINKINCLUDE lw LINKINCLUDE lx REFLINKEXCLUDE ly LINKEXCLUDE lz MARKCHAR ma OUTPUT ot 0 for HTML, 1 for ASCII, 2 for COMPUTER PAGEWIDTH pw PAGEINCLUDE px PAGEEXCLUDE pz RAWBYTES rb REPORTORDER re SEPCHAR sa REPSEPCHAR sb TIMEOFFSET tm TO to WARNINGS wa WEEKBEGINSON wb 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, ..., 6 for Saturday GOTOS xp GENERAL xq REFARGSINCLUDE yw ARGSINCLUDE yx REFARGSEXCLUDE yy ARGSEXCLUDE yz