Advanced Web Statistics

AWStats reads the raw Apache logfiles and parses them to give you detailed information about visitors.

• Download the tarball and unpack it into /usr/local/awstats
• Make new directory /var/lib/awstats to store the data.
• Run /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_configure.pl to setup initial configuration.
• Create awstats HTML directory
• Create an awstats configuration file
• Setup apache
• Setup cron job
• Build stats

./tools/awstats_configure.pl

Ubuntu:

> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> y
> domain.com
> [Enter for default]

Creates file /etc/awstats/awstats.domain.com.conf

Update stats:

/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats_updateall.pl now

Copy /usr/local/awstats/webroot to wherever the awstats docs are viewable.

Alias /awstats "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/awstats"
<Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/awstats">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 173.165.130.129
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

On some CentOS installations, with CPanel installed, you'll need to edit a specific file to get the AWStats alias working:

/usr/local/apache/conf/includes/post_virtualhost_global.conf

You can use the sample config above, or use the config script to create a new one. Here are some configuration variables you are most likely to want to change:

• LogFile=“/usr/local/awstats/tools/logresolvemerge.pl /var/log/apache2/*_log”
• DetailedReportsOnNewWindows=0 (removes _target in links)
• LogFormat=1 (combined)
• LogFormat=4 (common)

• Config Docs

You will need to run the awstats script to build the stats at least once.

Also, you can setup a cron job to execute it nightly.

/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -config=dev.beandog.org \
-update -dir=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/awstats &> /dev/null