{"id":268,"date":"2005-01-01T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/01\/awstats_install\/"},"modified":"2005-01-01T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T12:31:03","slug":"awstats_install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/01\/awstats_install\/","title":{"rendered":"AWStats Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guided again by Scot<\/a>, I installed AWStats<\/a> for web traffic analysis. I already like it better than Analog (see comparison<\/a>) because I got it installed quicker and because it is easier to run\/access from the web.<\/p>\n

Click on the little “AWStats” button at the bottom of mac.fiveforks.com to see stats.<\/p>\n

\"AWStats<\/a><\/p>\n

The install log is attached with comments for future reference. Had a few hiccups that were cured with setting the config file, permissions, and creating a couple of directories.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

mac:\/usr\/local\/awstats\/tools root# .\/awstats_configure.pl<\/strong><\/p>\n

—– AWStats awstats_configure 1.0 (build 1.3) (c) Laurent Destailleur —–<\/p>\n

This tool will help you to configure AWStats to analyze statistics for<\/p>\n

one web server. You can try to use it to let it do all that is possible<\/p>\n

in AWStats setup, however following the step by step manual setup<\/p>\n

documentation (docs\/index.html) is often a better idea. Above all if:<\/p>\n

– You are not an administrator user,<\/p>\n

– You want to analyze downloaded log files without web server,<\/p>\n

– You want to analyze mail or ftp log files instead of web log files,<\/p>\n

– You need to analyze load balanced servers log files,<\/p>\n

– You want to ‘understand’ all possible ways to use AWStats…<\/p>\n

Read the AWStats documentation (docs\/index.html).<\/p>\n

—–> Running OS detected: Linux, BSD or Unix<\/p>\n

—–> Check for web server install<\/p>\n

Found Web server Apache config file ‘\/etc\/httpd\/httpd.conf’<\/p>\n

—–> Check and complete web server config file ‘\/etc\/httpd\/httpd.conf’<\/p>\n

Warning: You Apache config file contains directives to write ‘common’ log files<\/p>\n

This means that some features can’t work (os, browsers and keywords detection).<\/p>\n

Do you want me to setup Apache to write ‘combined’ log files [y\/N] ? y<\/strong><\/p>\n

Add ‘Alias \/awstatsclasses “\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/classes\/”‘<\/p>\n

Add ‘Alias \/awstatscss “\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/css\/”‘<\/p>\n

Add ‘Alias \/awstatsicons “\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/icon\/”‘<\/p>\n

Add ‘ScriptAlias \/awstats\/ “\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/cgi-bin\/”‘<\/p>\n

Add ‘<Directory>’ directive<\/p>\n

AWStats directives added to Apache config file.<\/p>\n

—–> Update model config file ‘\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/cgi-bin\/awstats.model.conf’<\/p>\n

File awstats.model.conf updated.<\/p>\n

—–> Need to create a new config file ?<\/p>\n

Do you want me to build a new AWStats config\/profile<\/p>\n

file (required if first install) [y\/N] ? y<\/strong><\/p>\n

—–> Define config file name to create<\/p>\n

What is the name of your web site or profile analysis ?<\/p>\n

Example: www.mysite.com<\/p>\n

Example: demo<\/p>\n

Your web site, virtual server or profile name:<\/p>\n

> mac.fiveforks.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

—–> Define config file path<\/p>\n

In which directory do you plan to store your config file(s) ?<\/p>\n

Default: \/etc\/awstats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directory path to store config file(s) (Enter for default):<\/p>\n

><\/p>\n

—–> Create config file ‘\/etc\/awstats\/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf’<\/p>\n

Config file \/etc\/awstats\/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf<\/strong> created.<\/p>\n

—–> Restart Web server with ‘\/sbin\/service httpd restart’<\/p>\n

No such service httpd<\/p>\n

(I restarted manually.)<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

—–> Add update process inside a scheduler<\/p>\n

Sorry, configure.pl does not support automatic add to cron yet.<\/p>\n

You can do it manually by adding the following command to your cron:<\/p>\n

\/usr\/local\/awstats\/wwwroot\/cgi-bin\/awstats.pl -update -config=mac.fiveforks.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or if you have several config files and prefer having only one command:<\/p>\n

\/usr\/local\/awstats\/tools\/awstats_updateall.pl now<\/p>\n

Press ENTER to continue…<\/p>\n

A SIMPLE config file has been created: \/etc\/awstats\/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf<\/strong><\/p>\n

You should have a look inside to check and change manually main parameters.<\/p>\n

You can then manually update your statistics for ‘mac.fiveforks.com’ with command:<\/p>\n

> perl awstats.pl -update -config=mac.fiveforks.com<\/p>\n

You can also read your statistics for ‘mac.fiveforks.com’ with URL:<\/p>\n

> http:\/\/localhost\/awstats\/awstats.pl?config=mac.fiveforks.com<\/p>\n

Press ENTER to finish…<\/p>\n

mac:\/usr\/local\/awstats\/tools root#<\/p>\n

————<\/p>\n

mac:\/usr\/local\/awstats\/tools root# apachectl graceful (since restart attempt above failed.)<\/p>\n

Error: AWStats database directory defined in config file by ‘DirData’ parameter (\/var\/lib\/awstats) does not exist or is not writable.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Setup (‘\/etc\/awstats\/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf’ file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

opened \/etc\/awstats\/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Changed to:<\/p>\n

LogFile=”\/private\/var\/log\/httpd\/access_log”<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

mac:\/var root# mkdir<\/span>.\/awstats<\/strong><\/p>\n

mac:\/var root# <\/span>chgrp www awstats<\/strong><\/p>\n

mac:\/var root# <\/span>chmod g+w awstats<\/strong><\/p>\n

ls -l<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

drwxrwxr-x 2 root www 68 1 Jan 11:15 awstats<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/span>DirData=”\/var\/awstats”<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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