TUTORIAL: AWStats with APACHE2

[pcman01]

I saw a very similar question yesterday, on this site: http://counting.xf.cz/id2964.html

[tr333]

for those who are interested, i found the following guide useful for setting up awstats on ubuntu edgy 6.10: http://www.debuntu.org/2006/04/21/33...n-debianubuntu.

[jackrobinson]

never mind.

[tommytomato]

Awesome tutorial. It got me going pretty quickly. Here's a quick and dirty update -- I think some packages have changed since the original tutorial. I did this as root, and am just listing the commands since the descriptions above were so good! (March 25, 2005).

# apt-get install awstats
# cp /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples /usr/local/awstats
# cd usr/local/awstats
# mkdir wwwroot
# mkdir wwwroot/cgi-bin
# gunzip awstats.model.conf.gz
# mv awstats.model.conf wwwroot/cgi-bin
# ./awstats_configure.pl
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
y
foo.com
{ENTER}
{ENTER}
{ENTER}
# ln -s /usr/local/awstats/css/ wwwroot/
# ln -s /usr/share/awstats/* wwwroot/
# ln -s /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl wwwroot/cgi-bin/
# chown -R --dereference www-data:www-data wwwroot
# chown -R --dereference www-data:www-data /var/lib/awstats
# chown root:www-data /var/log/apache2/access.log

In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, find the section starting with
<Directory "/usr/loacl/awstats/wwwroot">, and put a # in front of the line "Options None" it should look like:
<Directory "/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot">
# Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

visit:
http://foo.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=foo.com

is it normal for this message after running the command cp /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples /usr/local/awstats

root@rockinghamgateway:~# cp /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples /usr/local/awstats
cp: omitting directory `/usr/share/doc/awstats/examples'

TT

[tommytomato]

Ok got the cp thingy worked out

any one worked out what the log format is for mail ?

I had one for a tinysofa system

LogFormat= "%time2 %email %email_r %host %host_r %method %url %code %bytesd"

TT

[ack.inc]

Hi! I'm trying to set awstats up to read VSFTPD's logs. I've done every step mentioned here : http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/...s_faq.html#FTP, except for the last statement that reads "Now you can use AWStats as usual (run the update process and read statistics)."

Now I'm flabbergasted...How do I "run the update process"? I don't have any directories that read "wwwroot" or "cgi-bin". In fact, I don't even have an "awstats.pl" script anywhere...

Please help!

[Wingthor]

Hi,

Perhaps this is a bit OT, but has anyone manage to get the GeoIp plugin to work with Ubuntu 9.10? I just get "country unknown" an city unknown aswell.

Regards

[pela020]

Does anybody know if it's possible to reset just the stats for Operating Systems and Browsers. I had the Logformat (4) wrong so I have a lot of unknown in thoose sections.

[pot_roast]

People also need to be aware that the awstats package for Ubuntu is now TWO YEARS out of date.

from the awstats website:

AWStats 6.9 released (Sun, 28 Dec 2008

most current entry in the changelog:


awstats (6.7.dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) hardy-security; urgency=low

* SECURITY UPDATE: XSS via quotes in the "config" parameter (CVE-2008-3714).
- 1006_quote_xss.patch: upstream fixes, thanks to Florian Weimer.

-- Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:22:38 -0800

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you can still install it and then replace the awstats.pl file from the source package. this usually works ok. but just be aware that the ubuntu package is two years outdated....

actually it's worse than I thought...
"Last stable version is 7.0 - 2010-12-05 23:54
Your Perl version must be at least 5.00503 (or higher) to use AWStats 6.x or higher. See ChangeLog to know what's new and for information on compatibility with previous versions.
See Features for current features."