help with settings up awstats

[sbjaved]

I'm new to apache and i'm trying to set up AWStats on my ubuntu 12.04 server. I've followed the guide at Ubuntu docs https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AWStats

I set it up according to the instructions and awstats is able to generate initial stats from apache log successfully. I placed the links to awstats in the default virtual host file. However when I try to run http://192.168.0.10:8080/awstats/awstats.pl, I get:

Error: SiteDomain parameter not defined in your config/domain file. You must edit it for using this version of AWStats.

Setup ('/etc/awstats/awstats.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

Here is my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file:

<VirtualHost *:8080>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	DocumentRoot /home/saad/www
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /home/saad/www/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride AuthConfig
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
	
	Alias /awstatsclasses "/usr/share/awstats/lib/"
	Alias /awstats-icon "/usr/share/awstats/icon/"
	Alias /awstatscss "/usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/css"
	ScriptAlias /awstats/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
	
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	
	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

The only three variables I edited in /etc/awstats/awstats.conf are:

LogFile="/var/log/apache2/access.log" 
SiteDomain="server-name.noip.org"
HostAliases="localhost 127.0.0.1 server-name.no-ip.org"

Let me add that the apache server is working fine and i'm able to access other pages stored on the server. Any guidance would be welcome.

[TheFu]

Haven't set this up in years, but it is still working.
I believe awstats requires each domain to create a different /etc/awstats/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.conf file based on the domainname. Right?
awstats.server-name.noip.org.conf is the name you should use.
Further, local-global settings go into awstats.conf.local ... to override the default awstats.conf.

I remember having to change the log parsing patterns slightly to match the output from apache. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 on that box. The newer Ubuntus have switched to a different apache version ... I believe 13.10 is a HUGE change in Apache.

The thing that always got me was ensuring the process that updated the stats was owned by www-data AND that all the output dirs and files were owned by www-data.www-data to prevent permissions issues.

Is ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log allowed? Never seen an apache conf that allowed variable substitution like that, but my apache knowledge is pretty limited. Switched to nginx on my main sites years ago.

[sbjaved]

Moved the settings into awstats.server-name.noip.org.conf
Changed permissions of awstats.pl which updates stats and awstats.server-name.noip.org.conf to 777.
Still no dice

[sbjaved]

Turns out you have to edit the awstats.conf file in addition to the awstats.server-name.no-ip.org file to get it to work. The wiki instructions were to only edit the self created conf file. Once I edited the awstats.conf itself, it started working.

[TheFu]

Moved the settings into awstats.server-name.noip.org.conf
Changed permissions of awstats.pl which updates stats and awstats.server-name.noip.org.conf to 777.
Still no dice

Don't forget to fix that. Using 777 permissions anywhere on a server is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea.