Applet parameters wildcards . The applet will not work behind a firewall or proxy server. This indicates that a connection could not be made back to the server to download the log file. It means that the Log Search java applet could not be found on your web server. Also ensure that you transferred the search.class file in binary mode to your web server.
Some web servers are case-sensitive so ensure that the search.class filename is of the correct case.
The log files not being stored in the correct directory on the web server. If not then you have probably found a bug in the sortlog program used to generate the data files. See the GNU General Public License for more details.