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require 5.004;
use strict;
use Apache::Constants qw( :common );
use DBI;
$Apache::DBILogger::revision = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.20 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/o);
$Apache::DBILogger::VERSION = "0.93";
sub reconnect($$) {
my ($dbhref, $r) = @_;
$$dbhref->disconnect;
$r->log_error("Reconnecting to DBI server");
$$dbhref = DBI->connect($r->dir_config("DBILogger_data_source"), $r->dir_config("DBILogger_username"), $r->dir_config("DBILogger_password"));
unless ($$dbhref) {
$r->log_error("Apache::DBILogger could not connect to ".$r->dir_config("DBILogger_data_source")." - ".$DBI::errstr);
return DECLINED;
}
}
sub logger {
my $r = shift->last;
my $s = $r->server;
my $c = $r->connection;
my %data = (
'server' => $s->server_hostname,
'bytes' => $r->bytes_sent,
'filename' => $r->filename || '',
'remotehost'=> $c->remote_host || '',
'remoteip' => $c->remote_ip || '',
'status' => $r->status || '',
'urlpath' => $r->uri || '',
'referer' => $r->header_in("Referer") || '',
'useragent' => $r->header_in('User-Agent') || '',
'timeserved'=> time2str("%Y-%m-%d %X", time),
'contenttype' => $r->content_type || ''
);
if (my $user = $c->user) {
$data{user} = $user;
}
$data{usertrack} = $r->notes('cookie') || '';
my $dbh = DBI->connect($r->dir_config("DBILogger_data_source"), $r->dir_config("DBILogger_username"), $r->dir_config("DBILogger_password"));
unless ($dbh) {
$r->log_error("Apache::DBILogger could not connect to ".$r->dir_config("DBILogger_data_source")." - ".$DBI::errstr);
return DECLINED;
}
my @valueslist;
foreach (keys %data) {
$data{$_} = $dbh->quote($data{$_});
push @valueslist, $data{$_};
}
my $table = $r->dir_config("DBILogger_table") || 'requests';
my $statement = "insert into $table (". join(',', keys %data) .") VALUES (". join(',', @valueslist) .")";
my $tries = 0;
TRYAGAIN: my $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);
unless ($sth) {
$r->log_error("Apache::DBILogger could not prepare sql query ($statement): $DBI::errstr");
return DECLINED;
}
my $rv = $sth->execute;
unless ($rv) {
$r->log_error("Apache::DBILogger had problems executing query ($statement): $DBI::errstr");
# unless ($tries++ > 1) {
# &reconnect(\$dbh, $r);
# goto TRYAGAIN;
# }
}
$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;
OK;
}
# #perl pun: <q[merlyn]> windows is for users who can't handle the power of the mac.
sub handler {
shift->post_connection(\&logger);
return OK;
}
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
Apache::DBILogger - Tracks what's being transferred in a DBI database
=head1 SYNOPSIS
# Place this in your Apache's httpd.conf file
PerlLogHandler Apache::DBILogger
PerlSetVar DBILogger_data_source DBI:mysql:httpdlog
PerlSetVar DBILogger_username httpduser
PerlSetVar DBILogger_password secret
PerlSetvar DBILogger_table requests
Create a database with a table named B<requests> like this:
CREATE TABLE requests (
server varchar(127) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
bytes mediumint(9) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
user varchar(15) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
filename varchar(200) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
remotehost varchar(150) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
remoteip varchar(15) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
status smallint(6) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
timeserved datetime DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' NOT NULL,
contenttype varchar(50) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
urlpath varchar(200) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
referer varchar(250) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
useragent varchar(250) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
usertrack varchar(100) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
KEY server_idx (server),
KEY timeserved_idx (timeserved)
);
Its recommended that you include
use Apache::DBI;
use DBI;
use Apache::DBILogger;
in your startup.pl script. Please read the Apache::DBI documentation for
further information.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module tracks what's being transfered by the Apache web server in a
SQL database (everything with a DBI/DBD driver). This allows to get
statistics (of almost everything) without having to parse the log
files (like the Apache::Traffic module, just in a "real" database, and with
a lot more logged information).
Apache::DBILogger will track the cookie from 'mod_usertrack' if it's there.
After installation, follow the instructions in the synopsis and restart
the server.
The statistics are then available in the database. See the section VIEWING
STATISTICS for more details.
=head1 PREREQUISITES
You need to have compiled mod_perl with the LogHandler hook in order
to use this module. Additionally, the following modules are required:
o DBI
o Date::Format
=head1 INSTALLATION
To install this module, move into the directory where this file is
located and type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
This will install the module into the Perl library directory.
Once installed, you will need to modify your web server's configuration
file so it knows to use Apache::DBILogger during the logging phase.
=head1 VIEWING STATISTICS
Please see the bin/ directory in the distribution for a
statistics script.
Some funny examples on what you can do might include:
=over 4
=item hit count and total bytes transfered from the virtual server www.company.com
select count(id),sum(bytes) from requests
where server="www.company.com"
=item hit count and total bytes from all servers, ordered by number of hits
select server,count(id) as hits,sum(bytes) from requests
group by server order by hits desc
=item count of hits from macintosh users
select count(id) from requests where useragent like "%Mac%"
=item hits and total bytes in the last 30 days
select count(id),sum(bytes) from requests where
server="www.company.com" and TO_DAYS(NOW()) -
TO_DAYS(timeserved) <= 30
This is pretty unoptimal. It would be faster to calculate the dates
in perl and write them in the sql query using f.x. Date::Format.
=item hits and total bytes from www.company.com on mondays.
select count(id),sum(bytes) from requests where
server="www.company.com" and dayofweek(timeserved) = 2
=back
It's often pretty interesting to view the referer info too.
See your sql server documentation of more examples. I'm a happy mySQL
user, so I would continue on
=head1 LOCKING ISSUES
MySQL 'read locks' the table when you do a select. On a big table
(like a large httpdlog) this might take a while, where your httpds
can't insert new logentries, which will make them 'hang' until the
select is done.
One way to work around this is to create another table
(f.x. requests_insert) and get the httpd's to insert to this table.
Then run a script from crontab once in a while which does something
like this:
LOCK TABLES requests WRITE, requests_insert WRITE
insert into requests select * from requests_insert
delete from requests_insert
UNLOCK TABLES
You can use the moverows.pl script from the bin/ directory.
Please note that this won't work if you have any unique id field!
You'll get duplicates and your new rows won't be inserted, just
deleted. Be careful.
=head1 TRAPS
I've experienced problems with 'Packets too large' when using
Apache::DBI, mysql and DBD::mysql 2.00 (from the Msql-mysql 1.18x
packages). The DBD::mysql module from Msql-mysql 1.19_17 seems to
work fine with Apache::DBI.
You might get problems with Apache 1.2.x. (Not supporting
post_connection?)
=head1 SUPPORT
This module is supported via the mod_perl mailinglist
(modperl@apache.org, subscribe by sending a mail to
modperl-request@apache.org).
I would like to know which databases this module have been tested on,
so please mail me if you try it.
The latest version can be found on your local CPAN mirror or at
=head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1998, Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@netcetera.dk>. All rights
reserved. This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 SEE ALSO
perl(1), mod_perl(3)
=cut