Configure AWSTATS

Here is a full guide for linux in a few very simple steps :

first you will need a shell access, the most popular program is putty (ssh emulator) download one if you dont have it, login as a root user and folow the instructions:

1) you need to install awstats, the best way to install it is using awstats rpm, so run this command first.

# wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/awstats/awstats-6.4-1.noarch.rpm

if you want to use other version of rpm find url first and replace this one.

2) to install run this command

# rpm -ivh awstats-6.4-1.noarch.rpm

3) then you will need to setup awstats_configure.pl run:

# cd /usr/local/awstats/tools
and
# ./awstats_configure.pl

i)It will ask for domain name

ii) press enter as default path will be /etc/awstats

4) vi /etc/awstats/awstats.www.yourdomain.com.conf

LogFormat:”%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-agent}i\”” combined

CustomLog:

Update frombrowser=1

5) Restart httpd

6) update stats using

/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=www.yourdomain.com

7)add the above command in cron to update automatically

8)http://domain.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=www.yourdomain.com

http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?t=23954