awstat for web tracking

AWstat is a free real-time logfile analyzer to get advanced statistics ..

Here I will explain how to install it by downloading your version of awstat.

Untar the package by issuing the below command,

tar -zxvf /var/Packages/awstats-7.0.tar.gz

mv awstats-7.0  /usr/local/awstats

Enter a new virtual hosts in the apache configuration,

vim /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
DocumentRoot “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot”
ServerName awstats.test.com
ErrorLog “logs/awstats-error_log”
CustomLog “logs/awstats-access_log” common

Alias /awstatsclasses “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/classes/”

Alias /awstatscss “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/css/”

Alias /awstatsicons “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/icon/”

ScriptAlias /awstats/ “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/”

<Directory “/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot”>

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Open the awstats.domain.conf in your favourite text editor,

vim /etc/awstats/awstats.domain.conf

LogFile=”/var/www/logs/ssl_access_cus_log”
SiteDomain=”domain”

ssl_access_cus_log should log in this format

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

cd tools/
perl awstats_configure.pl
/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now

log path
/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=domain.com

http://awstat.domain.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=domain

For country tracking ..

Download the GeoIP.tar.gz by using the below command,
wget http://maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz
tar xzvf GeoIP.tar.gz
cd GeoIP*
./configure && make && make install
cd ..
rm -rfv GeoIP*

Now install the below mentioned perl module
Geo::IP

Change /etc/awstats/awstats.domain.conf file for enabling GEOIP by using sed command as mentioned below,

 sed -i ‘s/#LoadPlugin=”geoip GEOIP_STANDARD \/pathto\/GeoIP.dat”/LoadPlugin=”geoip GEOIP_STANDARD
\/usr\/local\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoIP.dat”/’ /etc/awstats/*.conf

Every thing is set, Restart apache and point your browser url to http://awstat.domain.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=domain

Now you can see the realtime web statistic on your browser.

All datas will be in the “/var/lib/awstats” folder as .txt file, so take this folder as a backup,

Thanks for reading,
Cheers /-