Help Needed Parsing Log File

[des]

I want to get an idea of the countries from which visitors are coming. I downloaded a couple of the web log files and realized I needed something to parse them and break out the stats I needed.

Some log file analyzer products appear to offer to do this but on downloading a few for testing I find that they seem to be configured so that I can only get them to analyze files from the site, not from an offsite file.

What am I missing?

Or is there a better way for me to get 'from' stats re country?
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Des Walsh
Gold Coast, Australia
www.thinkinghomebusiness.com
Author, 7 Step Business Blog
http://www.7stepbusinessblog.com

[john]

Unfortunately at the present our web server logs are not compatible with third party log analysis software. We're working on that issue, but at this time I can not see any automated way for you to do a breakdown of visitors by country.

[john]

[zoli]

Des, why not use a 3rd party service? THere are many, this is free and quite comprehensive: http://performancing.com/metrics

[john]

Another one I just came across which looks interesting: http://www.enquisite.com/

[des]

Zoli & John
Thanks for the suggestions. I just realised I had actually installed performancing but I think I had some challenge figuring out how to use it. So I'll give it another go and also check out enquisite.com
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Des Walsh
Gold Coast, Australia
www.thinkinghomebusiness.com
Author, 7 Step Business Blog
http://www.7stepbusinessblog.com

[john]

And we will shortly be resolving the problem asked in the original post in this thread: the log file format will be generated in Apache style format so that the logs will be able to be read by third party log analysis tools.