Comments on: Install awstats on gentoo

by: Caleb Gray

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:53:27 +0000

The simplest way to determine errors when you’re faced with a bunch of zero’s in awstats.pl is to enable the “AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser” in your domain’s conf file. Then when you refresh the awstats page, a link “Update now” will apear. Click on the link and wait for it to tell you your problem.

I hope this helps.
- Caleb

by: sirbs

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:23:47 +0000

your how-to worked almost like a charm. Charmy enough that this was exactly what i needed to get 95% of the way to awstat workingness. I attribute to other 5% to subtle version differences and structuring etc. thanks !

by: cedar

Sun, 29 May 2005 17:09:39 +0000

Mel, I’m sorry if I gave the impression that I’m willing to work to resolve your issue. I was mostly trying to point out that my tutorial would not be useful for you unless you are trying to install awstats on gentoo linux. My advice would be to look at these:

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=43428

confirm with your isp that they allow perl, cgi and access to the web logs

and finally, hire a local geek to help you directly if you still can’t get it to work.
best of luck,
Cedar

by: Mel

Sun, 29 May 2005 12:00:57 +0000

Well, what do you need to know in order to help me?

Here’s a list of information about the hosting account I use.

General server information:

* Operating system - Linux

* Kernel version - 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp

* Machine Type - i686

* Apache version - 1.3.33 (Unix)

* PERL version - 5.8.6

* Path to PERL - /usr/bin/perl

* Path to sendmail - /usr/sbin/sendmail

* PHP version - 4.3.10

* MySQL version - 4.0.22-standard

* cPanel Build - 10.2.0-RELEASE 82

* Theme - cPanel X v2.5.0

I’m trying to install AWStats 6.4 to my server. I hope this helps clarify the details.

by: Cedar

Sun, 29 May 2005 03:12:04 +0000

These instructions are specific to a particular distribution of Linux, in this case Gentoo linux. These instructions will not work for you if you are trying to install to a non-gentoo system. Mel, I’m afraid I can’t make instructions to help you, particulary since the details of the system you are trying to install are unknown. My advice would be to find a local “geek” and hire him/her to help you directly.

by: Mel

Sat, 28 May 2005 19:59:16 +0000

I’ve searched the web for simple instructions on how to install AWStats to my hosting account. This is the best I’ve found so far, but it’s still greek to me. I’m more of a visual learner. Could someone please make a video tutorial for technical dummies like me?

I’d be willing to pay for some simple instructions.

by: Koen

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:20:51 +0000

Hey,

I did the update as root, but still it doesn’t work, also not with the ?config=localhost.localdomain after it.

/awstats/awstats.pl doesn’t exists, only cgi-bin/awstats.pl

I think I made some mistakes at the apache2.conf file and the other .conf file, but I don’t know what…

Greets

by: cedar

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:19:32 +0000

Did you try:

#/usr/share/webapps/awstats/6.4/hostroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=localhost.localdomain -update

as root?

Remember to change your version number and domain there.

Then try a couple of things:

1) instead of visiting http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
try
http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=localhost.localdomain
and
http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=localhost.localdomain

good luck

by: Koen

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:31:10 +0000

Hey,

I emerged the new awstats 6.4 version and did this:

#webapp-config -I -h localhost -d /awstats/ awstats 6.4

Then I putted this:

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

AuthType Basic
AuthName “AWStats authenticated zone”
AuthUserFile /etc/awstats/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

in the /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf file.

Then I’ve did the rest of the manual, created 2 files in the awstats folder:

awstats.gentoo.serveftp.org.conf
awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf

Now when I surf to http://192.168.1.4/cgi-bin/awstats.pl or on the server http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl I see that it works, but I have always 0 users…

Greets

by: Cedar

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:33:32 +0000

As far as I understand, the current stable version, 6.3-r2, is not vulerable. I refer you to bug 83657 Do you own checking though.