I am using awstats to log my server traffic and am very pleased. One problem is that I am traveling a lot and I do not want my traffic counted in awstats.
Do you have any good idea on how I can ignore my visits?
My first thought is to somehow use cookies. I have added a new logformat to my apache server according to http://www.crumpeta.com/adding_cookie_information_to_apache_log_files. Is it possible to filter cookies within awstats in order to ignore me?
Yes, you can use a special config in your awstats config file, il order to ignore specific accesses.
Use something like :
LogFile="grep -v YOUCOOKIESTRING /var/log/apache2/access.log |"
In your /etc/awstats/awstats.yoursite.conf file.
Do you browse from a static or dynamic IP? If it's a static IP (most business grade internet connections will have this), have a look at the SkipHosts parameter in your awstats configuration file.
Another option would be adding a second vhost that only you use that doesn't log traffic to the main log that awstats reads.
You could set up and additional VirtualHost with the same DocumentRoot and related parameters as your main site but with a different ServerName. To work, the internal links in your own site would need to be local.
You can extract the related log entries from a single set of log files or set up different ErrorLog and CustomLog for your new VirtualHost.
