AWStats on Debian

• Install AWStats

aptitude update aptitude awstats

• Configure the apache2 for awstats
• Copy configuration file for apache2.

cp /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/awstats

    Then edit /etc/awstats/awstats.conf file and make sure the file contains (double check the apache2 word) 

LogFile=“/var/log/apache2/access.log” SiteDomain=“mysite.org” LogFormat=1

• Now change a permission on apache log file

chmod o+r /var/log/apache2/access.log

• Make it a default that access.log has these permissions.

    Edit the /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 and make sure it has these lines 

create 644 root adm

• And

prerotate

  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats.www.mysite.org.conf  -update
endscript

• Final file should look similar to :

/var/log/apache2/*.log {

      weekly
      missingok
      rotate 52
      compress
      delaycompress
      notifempty
      create 644 root adm
      sharedscripts
      prerotate
          /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats.conf -update        endscript
      postrotate
              if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
                      /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
              fi
      endscript

}

• Reload apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

• And visit:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=awstat.conf or http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=awstat.conf [Optional]

    To make it easier to remember the address you can edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/awstats and add this line. 

RedirectMatch ^/logs /cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=awstat.conf

• Now you can access the awstats statistics by going to

http://www.mysite.com/logs

• Done.

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