7a. Why does the country section show only 100% unresolved?
Most likely because your web server is not doing name lookups and simply logging IP addresses. In order to determine the top level domain of the remote site, the program needs a resolved hostname, not an IP address. The simple fix is to just turn on name lookups on your web server so it starts logging names. Otherwise, you can pre-process your logs with something like the logresolve program supplied with apache or similar utilities, or you can use the Webalizers built in DNS lookup code (see 7b below). Another alternative is to enable the geolocation services, which will lookup the geographic location of IP addresses. You can use either the Webalizers native geolocation support (GeoDB) which supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, or optionally, GeoIP support from MaxMind Inc. While geolocation support will give you accurate country information, other aspects of the analysis may suffer, such as search string analysis (which depends on resolved hostnames to identify the various search engines).
7b. My Server doesn't do name lookups. Will The Webalizer?
Yes. The Webalizer fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6 reverse DNS lookup support. See the DNS.README file for additional information. If you don't enable hostname lookups on your web server, or use the geolocation services provided by The Webalizer, you will get '100% Unresolved/Unknown' country totals. This is because your log files only have IP addresses and not names. While it is recommended that you let your web server handle the DNS lookups, DNS support can be used for those sites where DNS resolution is not an option.
The GET method is used to retrieve information from the given server using a given URI. Requests using GET should only retrieve data and should have no other effect on the data.
2
HEAD
Same as GET, but transfers the status line and header section only.
3
POST
A POST request is used to send data to the server, for example, customer information, file upload, etc. using HTML forms.
4
PUT
Replaces all current representations of the target resource with the uploaded content.
5
DELETE
Removes all current representations of the target resource given by a URI.
6
CONNECT
Establishes a tunnel to the server identified by a given URI.
7
OPTIONS
Describes the communication options for the target resource.
8
TRACE
Performs a message loop-back test along the path to the target resource.
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