Personal LogDoor User's Guide

Getting Started

This section provides a quick overview of installing and using Personal LogDoor. For more detailed information, see the Reference section.

System Requirements

• Apple's Personal Web Sharing version 1.0, or compatible personal Web server
  
  
• Mac OS System 7.5 or later

Installation

To install Personal LogDoor, simply drag it to the same hard drive that your personal Web server is installed on. Be sure to install the correct version, PowerPC or 68K, for your machine. You may wish to create a separate folder for Personal LogDoor, since it creates a few additional files in the folder it is run from.

Using Personal LogDoor

To use Personal LogDoor, simply double-click it. Your personal Web server must be already installed and running. A window opens which provides access information in several ways:

• Details of the last access made to your server, including date, time, error status, bytes transferred, the complete URL accessed, the URL of the accessing page (if any), and the user's name (for accesses to access-controlled pages). The URL of your server is also displayed.
  
  
• Two graphs at the bottom of the window, representing hits and errors vs. time, for the whole server. This gives you a quick, at-a-glance overview of how your Web documents are being accessed, and whether there were access errors.
  
  
• The window can be expanded to reveal a list of the hits, bytes and errors, for each top-level file and folder. Expand the window by clicking on the triangle at the lower left of the window. The expanded window helps you pinpoint where errors are occurring.
  
  
• A day-by-day summary of accesses to any item in the expanded window can be gotten by double-clicking that item's entry. Accesses are sorted by date.

In addition, you can create a summary access report with the "Write Reports" item of the "Monitor" menu. For more information on how Personal LogDoor provides information, see the Reference section.

If your personal Web server is on an AppleTalk as well as a TCP/IP network, Personal LogDoor provides the ability for you to have its name registered on the AppleTalk network, allowing other AppleTalk users to find and access your server without having to know its URL. To have Personal LogDoor automatically register your server on AppleTalk every time it is run, simply select "Register with AppleTalk" from the "Monitor" menu. See the Reference chapter for details.

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