IIS logs and traffic source

I'm going through my iis logs to try and figure out what pages are being requested. I notice that all my hits are showing up as vbseo.php instead of the real/raw url the user is using. Is there anyway to capture that data?

I'm using IIS 6 with ISAPI_Rewrite lite

You can use a 3rd party tracking system like Google Analytics for that.

vBSEO-CP even has a field to put your analytics ID to start tracking;
no manual template edits or anything else required.

I wasn't needing it for general stats. I am trying to track abuse on the site and need to know which pages are being hit and with which IP address.

Is there anything I could do or use to show me page hits, datetime stamp and ip addresses?

It's been over a MONTH since I posted my last message and still no reply. I need an answer to this problem. I have to know USING IIS LOGS which pages are getting traffic.

Someone is hitting pages on my server and I can't tell which pages the traffic is going to. I need to match an IP address to a real URL.

There's no reason to get angry.

99% of us here run linux. I personally don't know enough about it to help, as probably most people reading this thread because we don't use it.

IIS Logging Overview is probably a good place to start.

Originally Posted by briansol

There's no reason to get angry.

99% of us here run linux. I personally don't know enough about it to help, as probably most people reading this thread because we don't use it.

IIS Logging Overview is probably a good place to start.

Though there is reason to get angry, taking over a month for support, I am not angry. I'm just making a point of how unresponsive the support is. Bold and capital letters don't always mean anger, sometimes it's used for emphasis.

I understand that 99% of the people here use linux but vbseo is sold as supporting IIS and I would like help with my IIS setup. I don't think that asking for a turn around time of less than a month is unreasonable.

Thanks for the link but I know how to read a text file. My problem is that the information IN the text file is useless. It only shows /forums/vbseo.php as the page that got traffic instead of the real url that the user was hitting.

I need a way to find out which URL the user is hitting along with its IP address.

Hi Michael,

While we do provide general support via the forums, they are more of a place to discuss things as a community. It would appear that, in this situation, nobody was able to provide a suggestion until Brian's.

For priority support, please use the ticketing system: https://www.vbseo.com/support/

While I'm not entirely sure anything can be done, it's always possible, and one of our team who is more familiar with IIS may be able to assist.

As an aside, does IIS logging capture non-vBSEO'ed forum page data 'correctly'? If it can differentiate showthread.php?t=871564567 from showthread.php?t=632467 then it should be able to differentiate between specific URLs.

Originally Posted by Ace Shattock

Hi Michael,

While we do provide general support via the forums, they are more of a place to discuss things as a community. It would appear that, in this situation, nobody was able to provide a suggestion until Brian's.

For priority support, please use the ticketing system: https://www.vbseo.com/support/

Great, thanks. I'll use that link in the future if I'm unable to get help here.

Originally Posted by Ace Shattock

While I'm not entirely sure anything can be done, it's always possible, and one of our team who is more familiar with IIS may be able to assist.

As an aside, does IIS logging capture non-vBSEO'ed forum page data 'correctly'? If it can differentiate showthread.php?t=871564567 from showthread.php?t=632467 then it should be able to differentiate between specific URLs.

IIS can store querystring data and does in the following entires
/forums/vbseo.php dateline=1229491415
/forums/vbseo.php type=RSS2&forumids=6
/forums/vbseo.php do=postreply&t=12248
/forums/vbseo.php t=12061

but more often than not I see this
/forums/vbseo.php

That doesn't have any querystring data just a page hit to the vbseo.php page. What would cause a page hit to just /forums/vbseo.php?

Originally Posted by briansol

There's no reason to get angry.

99% of us here run linux. I personally don't know enough about it to help, as probably most people reading this thread because we don't use it.

IIS Logging Overview is probably a good place to start.

I don't have this problem. Do you have URI Query checked in advanced log options?

Originally Posted by AWS

I don't have this problem. Do you have URI Query checked in advanced log options?

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved

IIS can store querystring data and does in the following entires
/forums/vbseo.php dateline=1229491415
/forums/vbseo.php type=RSS2&forumids=6
/forums/vbseo.php do=postreply&t=12248
/forums/vbseo.php t=12061

but more often than not I see this
/forums/vbseo.php

That doesn't have any querystring data just a page hit to the vbseo.php page. What would cause a page hit to just /forums/vbseo.php?

Yes, you can see in the post just above yours that I do have the query string showing up sometimes in the log but many other times there is none.

For anyone finding this thread in the future FYI

After contacting support directly they had me change my rewrite rules to include ?vbseourl=$1 which now adds that querystring field with the original url as the value to the logs.

Two lines were changed
Original
RewriteRule ^/forums/((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ /forums/vbseo.php [CL,NC,L,QSA]
Changed
RewriteRule ^/forums/((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ /forums/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [CL,NC,L,QSA]

Original
RewriteRule ^/forums/(.+)$ /forums/vbseo.php [CL,NC,L,QSA]
Changed
RewriteRule ^/forums/(.+)$ /forums/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [CL,NC,L,QSA]