This is the first screen you see when running SquidFire. This screen lists all the log files found in the specified log folder. There is one link per log file and the date ranges are automatically calculated by the script by looking at the first and last line of the log file. The number of files and their dates will depend on how your server rotates the Squid log files. This example is on a server that rotates the logs every week. Because finding the date ranges can be intensive on the server with large compressed log files, there is an option in the script to cache this information.

After choosing a log file you're brought to the search page. The search defaults to search on all fields. The search options are All, Date, IP and URL. At the top of the search form is the name of the log file being searched as well as a link back to the list of log files.

After entering search criteria into the search field and clicking on search, a list of matching rows from the log file will be displayed. In this example we are searching for a specific IP address in each log row. Results are returned in the same order they appear in the log file. Notice 7,745 rows were returned.

This is the same search as above except we are excluding Images and Secondary Requests. This removes .gif, .jpg, .swf, .css, etc files from the results. This reduces the number of results from 7,745 to 908. This option helps weed out a lot of the uninteresting requests and get down to actual web pages viewed. The types of files removed is defined in the script.

This is an example of searching the URL for keywords, in this case to find URLs with "monster" in them.