Enter the pathname to the server log file.

Enter the file name of the server log file.

Depending on how your server is set up, your store may have its own log file, or the log file may be shared with other sites. If your store has its own log file, leave this field blank, or just enter a forward slash "/". If the log file is shared, ShopSite needs to know which entries in the log are for your store. Type in the part of your store's URL that uniquely identifies your site. If you have your own domain, then your domain name might work. Otherwise you should probably use your store ID.

Select whether or not you want ShopSite to use ISTAT files when generating reports. The ISTAT files contain order summary information that links sales and money made to specific pages or from specific hosts.

So you will not have to regularly click the Empty Store Log button (see below), ShopSite will automatically shrink the "store" log periodically. For example, setting this field to "31" causes ShopSite to shrink the store log every 31 days. When it shrinks the log, it will remove everything older than 31 days. This saves disk space, but limits how far back you can view summaries of pages, hosts, and referrers.

Use this button to zero out the sales statistics. If you had been testing your store, but were now ready to open the site for business, you would want to reset all your test sales to zero.

Similar to Clear Sales Counters. Clicking this button will zero out all your visitor traffic numbers. You would use this feature if you were done configuring and testing your store and now wanted to set everything to zero before you opened for business.

When you select Page Summary ShopSite uses the log file to calculate on which pages orders came from. If the order log has become too large, use this button to delete it. The order log is only used by the Page Summary option, so deleting it does not remove any orders nor does it affect the sales statistics.

ShopSite extracts from the Web server log the relevant information for calculating page visits and referrers and stores them in the store log. If this file becomes too large, use this button to delete it. Removing the file may affect the visitor statistics for the current day but the previous days, month, and year numbers will not be lost.

Whenever you view the Reports page, the store log file is automatically updated, so you would not normally need to use this button. However, it you were testing your configuration settings, you can use this button to see if the configuration was set properly.

Whenever ShopSite reads your Web server log file, it starts from where it last read in the log file. This prevents ShopSite from counting the same page visits more than once. You normally would never need to change the default setting (Don't reset last date/time read) unless your Web server logs were somehow changed. If you change the default setting, first try the Reset last date/time read according to last request in your store log option. This will take the last known time that data was moved from the Web server log to the store log and use this as the starting point for reading from the Web server log. As a last resort you can use the final option (Reset last date/time read to the following: ) to have ShopSite read the Web server log beginning at the date and time specified.