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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Web Log Summaries


A very nice web log analyser and summary generator is awstats. Install the package:



  # wajig install awstats

This will give you a statistics summary page at http://localhost/cgi-bin/awstats.pl. You will need to enable icons by adding the following line to your apache configuration file /etc/apache/httpd.conf:



  Alias /awstats-icon/ /usr/share/awstats/icon/

Also you may like to include browser and host OS information in the summary by using the apache combined log format:



  LogFormat=1

Be sure the apache generates this information (the default is not to). Your /etc/apache/httpd.conf should contain:



  CustomLog /var/log/apache/access.log combined

To allow the analyser to run through the apache log files (/var/log/apache/access) it needs permission to be able to read them. The simplest approach is to:



  # chmod o+r /var/log/apache/access*

The summary log file can now be generated with:



  # /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats -update

(This is what cron also runs every 10 minutes, by default.)


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