Location of IIS Log Files

[brucevde]

newbie alert (been awhile since I said that)...

Is there some way to programmatically know the directory where the log files for a site are located? I am trying to automate the creation of web stats from the log files.

Also, how do you setup/create a web application which all websites on the server can use. For example, navigating to www.domain1.com/sitestats and www.domain2.ca/sitestats will run the same code.

[mendhak]

Programmatically... hmm.

Are you using IIS 6? I am taking a stab in the dark at this, but if you could get to the IIS metabase then you could find out where it is.

[brucevde]

Yes, II6 on W2K3. IIS only lets one specify the parent folder where log files are stored and insists on having a sub-folder based on the log type and website numeric id. If there was a way to change that I would be a happy camper...

If I could get the numeric id, I could hard-code the rest. Will check out this metabase thingy...

Any thoughts on question 2.

[mendhak]

I'll think about your Q1 a bit and come back if I have more to add.

For Q2, you can redirect a subfolder to a website in IIS. Place your web application... wherever.

Under all the other domains, create a folder of whatever name (in your case, sitestats) and right click it, properties, and in the dialog, you'll see "A redirection to a URL." You can specify the URL you want there.

HTH


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