95.7 AWStats
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A straightforward web log analyser and summary generator is awstats. Install the package:
Enable cgi scripts if they have not already been enabled:
Take a copy of a default AWStats configuration file for our local configuration:
Edit the configuration file to set the SiteDomain parameter, which is required for AWStats:
$ sudo emacs /etc/awstats/awstats.abc.com.conf
SiteDomain="abc.com"Always good to restart the web server for a new configurations to take effect:
We now have a statistics summary page at http://abc.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl.
You will need to enable icons by adding the following line into a new apache2 configuration file:
$ sudo emacs /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/awstats.conf
Alias /awstats-icon/ /usr/share/awstats/icon/Restart the web server for a nice looking page.
The initial summary log file can now be populated with:
This can be setup for cron to run every 10 minutes:
*/10 * * * * /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=abc.com -updateNe sure to protect the website with a password stored in
/var/www/html/.htpasswd:
$ sudo htpasswd -c /var/www/html/.htpasswd fred
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user fredEnable the password by adding the following configuration:
$ sudo emacs /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/awstat.conf
<Files awstats.pl>
AuthName "Dialog prompt"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
</Files>Be sure to restart the apache2 server again.
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