A review study of server log formats for efficient web mining

Now-a-days WWW is the most basic need in the globalized world. It consist the vast data of various fields around the globe. The web has incredible amount of information, which supplies a large, explosive, diverse, dynamic and mostly unstructured data stores. The combination of these web stores are known as the data warehouse and the process of retrieving the data from these warehouses is data mining. In this paper, we will discuss the classification of web data and its categorization. Here the awareness about the log files of web server is also provided along with its types. Server log files are basically the ASCII text files which contain the log record of users.