logging hits stats for Manila site visitors

[Marcus Mauller]

Bob/Ryan:

The common logfile format:
remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "request" status bytes

remotehost
     Remote hostname (or IP number if DNS hostname is not available)
rfc931
     The remote logname of the user.
authuser
     The username as which the user has authenticated himself.
[date]
     Date and time of the request.
"request"
     The request line exactly as it came from the client.
status
     The HTTP status code returned to the client.
bytes
     The content-length of the document transferred.

I've not used AWStats, but Analog likes both Manila and Radio common 
logs (and by tweaking it's preferences, the optional fields). I've 
also written custom programs for clients to make the information 
prettified to what they'd like.

The two empty dashes are most likely rfc931 and authuser, but without 
seeing your log output, I'm only guessing - they could also be 
optional fields you've included on your common log settings 
(http://127.0.0.1:5336/settings?page=1.9) such as virtual hosts, 
referers or User-agent, which you could turn off.
If AWStats can't be tweaked with preferences to deal with the missing 
data represented by the dashes, you could customize Manila's common 
log output to something AWStats likes (see the bottom of the page 
pointed out at http://frontier.userland.com/httpLogging)

Some users like information overload - so I've seen sites with both 
local analysis and the external services - but usually, one is enough 
;<)