Installing AWStats Logfile Analyzer

Contents

• Introduction
• Downloading AWStats
• Installing AWStats.
• Configuration.

Introduction

AWStats is a powerful open source logfile analyzer with a sophisticated graphical presentation facilities.

For many years I was a fan of Webalizer and would have been unlikely to ring the ranges had it not been for system upgrades which broke my old webalizer installation.

Once I became familiar with AWStats I became a convert and now use it for analysing Nottingham City's Scores on the Doors web site as well as those that run on my own server such as CityLinux and the West Bridgford Community Network .

Download

The latest stable version may be downloaded from the AWStats official home page awstats.sourceforge.net .

AWStats is written in Perl. You will need Perl 5.00503 or later to run AWStats 6.0 or higher.

There is little if anything to be gained by using an rpm package as all you need to do is move the relevant files to final homes. Download the zipped tar file to your source directory.

Installation

Once the download is complete unpack the distribution directly to your prefered location. E.g.

	cd /usr/local
	gzip -dc /usr/local/src/awstats/awstats-6.7.tar.gz|tar xvf -
  

The files will be unpacked to /usr/local/awstats-6.7. For ease of administration I would create a symbolic link to this directory

	cd /usr/local
	ln -s awstats-6.7 awstats
  

Configuration

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C W Fulford
18^th September 2007