Microsoft IIS in XP help

[Ramuman]

Hi all, I had a question about IIS 5.1 in Windows XP. I remember in Windows 2000 there was a Microsoft program that allowed one to monitor the number of people that visted your site in a day etc. thru IIS. It had a bar graph you could change to view my day, month, hour etc. It also had some other basic features. I'm just wondering where it is in IIS 5.1/XP. Thanks in advance!

[Digital Froggy]

Since IIS 5.1 in Windows XP is a watered down version of the full-fledged IIS server software, it's probably not included. What I would do is install apache 2 on there. It's more secure and offers more features than your stock IIS software. As far as the bar graph thing...I'm not so sure if it's available for Windows but I know there is GPL software availble for linux that will produce pretty graphs based on server access. Just do some searching at freshmeat.net or sourceforge.com

[Begby]

I suggest the same thing, install Apache, however it might be a good idea to stay with the latest 1.x.x version, since there are many modules that have yet to be rewritten for 2.x and others may not work 100% yet.

A common and good free monitoring software, which works with Apache, and should still work with IIS (assuming the XP version you have has some sort of standard log) is webalizer. You can get a windows version from www.webalizer.com.