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--- blog:configure_awstats_on_debian_webserver [2010-06-29 15:42] – brb
+++ blog:configure_awstats_on_debian_webserver [2010-10-24 10:29] (current) – brb
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 Make it a default that access.log has these permissions.
+Locate the awstats_updateall.pl script (it is in /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples on debian) and make a symlink to /usr/local/bin for it.
 Edit the /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 and make sure it has these lines
   create 644 root adm
   prerotate
-    /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats.www.mysite.org.conf  -update
+        nice /usr/local/bin/awstats_updateall.pl -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl now
   endscript
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         sharedscripts
         prerotate
-            /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats.conf -update        endscript
+           nice /usr/local/bin/awstats_updateall.pl -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
         postrotate
                 if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
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 }
 </code>
+Add the update command to cron.hourly:
+  nice /usr/local/bin/awstats_updateall.pl -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
 Reload apache
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   http://www.mysite.com/logs
+If you have a lot of old compressed logfiles that you would to include, set the logfile path to:
+  LogFile="zcat /var/log/apache2/servername.tld-access.log.*.gz |"
+And update the database. This will incorporate all old log entries. Don't forget to switch back to the last logfile!
 Ref: http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto