AWStats Installed
Guided again by Scot, I installed AWStats for web traffic analysis. I already like it better than Analog (see comparison) because I got it installed quicker and because it is easier to run/access from the web.
Click on the little "AWStats" button at the bottom of mac.fiveforks.com to see stats.
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.
mac:/usr/local/awstats/tools root# ./awstats_configure.pl
----- AWStats awstats_configure 1.0 (build 1.3) (c) Laurent Destailleur -----
This tool will help you to configure AWStats to analyze statistics for
one web server. You can try to use it to let it do all that is possible
in AWStats setup, however following the step by step manual setup
documentation (docs/index.html) is often a better idea. Above all if:
- You are not an administrator user,
- You want to analyze downloaded log files without web server,
- You want to analyze mail or ftp log files instead of web log files,
- You need to analyze load balanced servers log files,
- You want to 'understand' all possible ways to use AWStats...
Read the AWStats documentation (docs/index.html).
-----> Running OS detected: Linux, BSD or Unix
-----> Check for web server install
Found Web server Apache config file '/etc/httpd/httpd.conf'
-----> Check and complete web server config file '/etc/httpd/httpd.conf'
Warning: You Apache config file contains directives to write 'common' log files
This means that some features can't work (os, browsers and keywords detection).
Do you want me to setup Apache to write 'combined' log files [y/N] ? y
Add 'Alias /awstatsclasses "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/classes/"'
Add 'Alias /awstatscss "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/css/"'
Add 'Alias /awstatsicons "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/icon/"'
Add 'ScriptAlias /awstats/ "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/"'
Add '<Directory>' directive
AWStats directives added to Apache config file.
-----> Update model config file '/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.model.conf'
File awstats.model.conf updated.
-----> Need to create a new config file ?
Do you want me to build a new AWStats config/profile
file (required if first install) [y/N] ? y
-----> Define config file name to create
What is the name of your web site or profile analysis ?
Example: www.mysite.com
Example: demo
Your web site, virtual server or profile name:
> mac.fiveforks.com
-----> Define config file path
In which directory do you plan to store your config file(s) ?
Default: /etc/awstats
Directory path to store config file(s) (Enter for default):
>
-----> Create config file '/etc/awstats/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf'
Config file /etc/awstats/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf created.
-----> Restart Web server with '/sbin/service httpd restart'
No such service httpd
(I restarted manually.)
-----> Add update process inside a scheduler
Sorry, configure.pl does not support automatic add to cron yet.
You can do it manually by adding the following command to your cron:
/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=mac.fiveforks.com
Or if you have several config files and prefer having only one command:
/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now
Press ENTER to continue...
A SIMPLE config file has been created: /etc/awstats/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf
You should have a look inside to check and change manually main parameters.
You can then manually update your statistics for 'mac.fiveforks.com' with command:
> perl awstats.pl -update -config=mac.fiveforks.com
You can also read your statistics for 'mac.fiveforks.com' with URL:
> http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=mac.fiveforks.com
Press ENTER to finish...
mac:/usr/local/awstats/tools root#
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mac:/usr/local/awstats/tools root# apachectl graceful (since restart attempt above failed.)
Error: AWStats database directory defined in config file by 'DirData' parameter (/var/lib/awstats) does not exist or is not writable.
Setup ('/etc/awstats/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
opened /etc/awstats/awstats.mac.fiveforks.com.conf
Changed to:
LogFile="/private/var/log/httpd/access_log"
mac:/var root# mkdir./awstats
mac:/var root# chgrp www awstats
mac:/var root# chmod g+w awstats
ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 2 root www 68 1 Jan 11:15 awstats
DirData="/var/awstats"
AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1