Total AWStats confusion

fourhead · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: Total AWStats confusion

I just emerged AWStats on my webserver, hosting several vhosts. I must say, I'm _very_ confused about the whole AWStats process. I'd like to have awstats working as a CGI, so I can just open www.mydomain.de/stats and I would see my webserver stats for my domain. So far, so good - but how do I do that? I understand I need several conf files in /etc, named awstats.mydomain1.conf, awstats.mydomain2.conf and so forth. Then, I'd have to put awstats.pl into my webserver directory, where the homepage is stored. In my case, this would be /home/mydomain/www/stats/awstats.pl. What I don't know how to do it is: How do I have to config apache so that it executes the .pl script? Also, awstats needs some other files like icons etc, they are all stored somehere in /usr/share ... I believe I could symlink these dirs to my homepage dir, or I could tell awstats somehow where to find these files?

I'd be glad if someone could give me some hints, especially with apache config, I'm a little stuck with that.

Tom

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

fourhead · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

Wow, thanks a lot, that will definitely help me. Am I right in asuming that those aliases are some kind of symlink-alikes, so when the awstats.pl tries to load something from the directory /awstatsclasses then Apache2 would redirect it to /usr/share/web..." ?? And ScriptAlias means when a user accesses www.mydomain.de/stats Apache would redirect this request to /usr/share/... where the script is located right? That would be a perfect setup, I'll check it out! Thanks again!

Tom

fourhead · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I just tried it and it works perfectly! Thank you again for that. I'll read trough the config to fully understand it for myself. There's one little problem tough, the bars in the statistics should be colored, but awstats.pl seems to not find the images that are used to color the bars, so all bars are just white. How's that?

Tom

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

fourhead · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm I'll look where the icons are stored and check the link. Ok one last question. How do I teach apache that when I enter www.mydomain.de/stats that it should load the awstats.pl? In commonapache2.conf, there's a section

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

maybe a script alias or a rewrite rule would do the trick?

cheers

steve

fourhead · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid I need some further assistance. I tried everything imaginable, but I didn't manage to config Apache in a way that I could just enter "www.mydomain.de/stats" in a browser to open my statisitcis - I always have to explicitely add "/awstats.pl". I tried everything from linking index.pl -> awstats.pl, changing the ScriptAlias, directly linking /stats to awstats.pl and so forth, but it just didn't work out. Can somebody help me out please?

Tom

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

fourhead · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

Hello, thank you very much for that. Indeed I tried both ScriptAlias for myself, but never got the idea to put them both together :-)

I'll reconfig Apache then, thanks again!

Tom

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

let us know if this is working for you.

cheers

SteveB

fourhead · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

Yes, it works perfectly now! Thank you very much! Would never have worked that out without your help I guess.

Tom

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

fs_mariner · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 45

Excellent, your very thourough and you helped me a lot. Thanks.