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            <h1>Setup GoAccess (CowAxess) Web Log Analyzer on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>What is GoAccess?</h2>

<p><em>GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.</em> - <a href="https://goaccess.io/" target="_blank">https://goaccess.io/</a></p>

<h2>Installing GoAccess (CowAxess)</h2>

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	<li>Download XAMPP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download CowAxess <a href="https://itefix.net/cowaxess" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded XAMPP .zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded CowAxess .zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Run the CowAxess installer, install to C:\Program Files\CowAxess</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe</li>
	<li>Click the Start button next to Apache</li>
	<li>Navigate to C:\Program Files\CowAxess</li>
	<li>Double click the cowaxess.cmd file</li>
	<li>Paste the following command to start the real-time monitor, changing the paths to access.log and monitor.html as needed
	<div class="codeBlock">goaccess &quot;C:\\Program Files\\xampp\\apache\\logs\\access.log&quot; -o &quot;C:\\Program Files\\xampp\\htdocs\\monitor.html&quot; --log-format=COMBINED --real-time-html</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/monitor.html</li>
	<li>Welcome to GoAccess hosted on Windows</li>
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