System
Requirements
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- Operating System: Windows or Unix. It has been tested
on Windows 95, 98, ,NT 4, 2000, Red Hat 8.0 Linux, Sun
Solaris 8, and IRIX 6.5. The source code for the CGI
programs, written in C, should compile on most modern
varieties of Unix.
- Web Server: It has been tested with Internet
Information Server (IIS), Personal Web Server (PWS), and
Apache.
- Optional: w3mir
to automatically copy a website, or you can copy it
yourself. W3mir requires a Perl
interpreter with the LWP module installed.
- Subjects must use Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer.
- The FLUD format data
files can be parsed by the FLUD parser, then visualized
with VisVIP.
Neither of these, however, is required to collect the
data.
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Download
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- Windows
- Download WebVIP.exe from our
NIST Web Metrics download page into an arbitrary
location, like C:\temp, and execute it. This will
install the WebVIP subdirectories and files in
C:\WebMetrics\WebTools\VisVIP, or whatever other folder
you specify.
- Unix
- Download WebVIP.tar.gz from our
NIST Web Metrics download page onto your local disk.
You might need to be root to do the rest. Change your
working directory to the location where you wish to
install WebVIP. Uncompress and untar WebVIP.tar.gz, to
create the directory WebTools, which contains
subdirectories and files.
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| Web Server
Requirements |
Configure your web server to recognize the following virtual
directories, or aliases. Replace "<webserver>" with
the internet hostname of your webserver.
| http://<webserver>/WebLogs |
readable NIST Web Metrics testbed component subdirectories. |
| http://<webserver>/WebTools |
readable NIST Web Metrics testbed component subdirectories. |
| http://<webserver>/WebTools/WebVIP |
readable WebVIP HTML files and subdirectories. |
| http://<webserver>/WebTools/WebVIP/cgi-bin |
executable WebVIP CGI programs. |
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| Configuration Files |
Edit the following files.
- ...WebTools/WebVIP/cgi-bin/webmetrics.env
Supply URL for the cgi-bin directory and path for WebTools.
- Example for a Windows system.
- CGI_BIN=http://jess.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools/WebVIP/cgi-bin
- WEBMET_TOOLS=c:/WebMetrics/WebTools
- Example for a UNIX system.
- CGI_BIN=http://zingy.ncsl.nist.gov/~emorse/WebTools/WebVIP/cgi-bin
- WEBMET_TOOLS=/home/emorse/html/WebTools
(Values can also be supplied for BASE_URL and
WEBLOG_DATA, but the default values derived
from CGI_BIN and WEBMET_TOOLS are adequate
for typical installations.)
- ...WebTools/WebVIP/cgi-bin/w3mir_loc.txt
If w3mir is available on your system, create
this file in this location and enter the location on the first line (e.g.,
c:/w3mir/w3mir or /usr/local/w3mir).
- ...WebLogs/Demo/webstruct/url2nn.dat
If you want to try collecting some data
on the "Demo" site provided with WebVIP, you need to
edit the first line and replace "zingy.ncsl.nist.gov"
with the name of the host where you have installed
WebVIP, otherwise the parser will generate some errors
in the pretty print version of the logs.
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