Comments on: A quick AWstats guide

By: George Notaras

George Notaras — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:16:55 +0000

For a very long time wordpress did not allow the backslashes to show correctly. I needed to escape the backslashes in order them to show in the article. This affected all configuration options inside the article, which contained a backslash.

This has been corrected.

By: Habhob

Habhob — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:04:08 +0000

I have a problem getting awstats to work with a number of virtual websites on the same server. The link http://www.ihsen.com/support/InstallingAWStatsOnIIS6.pdf provides a nice step by step and it explains how to use the include directive to monitor several websites but I get a syntax error when I use include. Does the SiteDomain is the active directory domain name, the main (default) website URL, webserver name or the virtual website, also the HostAliases again where to get this value is it the same as the host header in IIS console in the website properties?

http://www.subdomain1.domain1.com the main website name
subdomain1.domain1.com active directory domain name
webserver1 web server name
Statistics Awstats vertual website
Intranet1 vertual website on the same webserver with host header of
(intranet1.domain1.com)

I got awstats.webserver1.conf file and I have copied it to awstat.intranet1.conf

In the awstats.webserver1.conf file I added the following:

****************************************************************
Include “awstat.intranet1.conf”
LogFile=”C:Windowssystem32logfilesW3SVC12345678ex%MM%DD%YY.log
SiteDomain=”webserver1″
HostAliases=”Localhost 127.0.0.1 webserver1 http://www.subdomain1.domain1.com”

The above values were commented out with# from the awstat.intranet1.conf file

I was able to get the statistics of the main website but I couldn’t get it for the intranet website.
I get syntax error when I run the command perl awstats.pl -config=webserver1 -update and it points to the line:
Include “awstat.intranet1.conf”

Also if I run the command perl awstats.pl -config=Intranet1 -update all the records get dropped or corrupted.

Log files are all have the same format.

Any help is appriciated.

Thanks,
Hab

By: Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0000

Yours is a really nice awstats guide, really very helpful. :)

By: Thecoolone

Thecoolone — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:22:44 +0000

Is there a way of creating a chart for a single day’s traffic using the Extra Section Configuration ??

By: GNot

GNot — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:05:54 +0000

Hi Jody, when it doesn't work, it's very likely that you have improper regular expressions in the ExtraSectionCondition and ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues fields. Sorry, but I don't have any free time to investigate the code.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:49:59 +0000

Hi there. Ive followed your article on adding extra sections but I cant get it to work. My code is as follows:

ExtraSectionName1=”Pages Viewed”
ExtraSectionCodeFilter1=”200 304″
ExtraSectionCondition1=”URL,/content/default.asp”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle1=”PAGE ID”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1=”QUERY_STRING,page=([^&]+)”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnFormat1=”%s”
ExtraSectionStatTypes1=PL
ExtraSectionAddAverageRow1=0
ExtraSectionAddSumRow1=1
MaxNbOfExtra1=100
MinHitExtra1=1

This is pretty much identical to yours and others ive seen examples of, so I was wondering if its perhaps my log files that are different. Although having said that, using awstats it should read the axstatsxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.txt file shouldnt it, rather than the raw log files, and therefore will all be the same..?

Anyway, any help, advice would be much appreciated as I’m kinda pulling my hair out.

Thanks in advance.

By: Gnot

Gnot — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:10:24 +0000

This is a nice idea. I don’t currently use any external plugins, but i intend to spend some time to see what is available and hopefully extend this tutorial when i have enough free time.

By: Stoker

Stoker — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:36:14 +0000

Nice guide, would be nice to see guide on how to install plugin – I have tried to get userinfo to work several times but all have failed – and no response from forum!

By: Gnot

Gnot — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:09:56 +0000

You can use the provided logresolvemerge.pl utility. Have a look at the official tools page for more info. An awstats configuration file can be used for one log file at a time, so the logs should be merged and sorted before. This is what logresolvemerge.pl does. Also, in the documentation, it says that you can use the -month=all -year=YYYY options when log files are processed in order to have reports for a whole year. Sorry for the delayed reply.

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 22 May 2006 14:04:11 +0000

I have AWStats 6.5, Active Perl 5.8.8 installed on XP and it works. I am trying to find out a tutorial on how to process several log files.

For example, I have:
ex0501.log
ex0502.log
ex0503.log
etc.

also have those same files compressed:
ex0501.log.gz
ex0502.log.gz
ex0503.log.gz

Perhaps it is just a syntax issue in my awstats.testsite.conf?
I tried various combinations for the “LogFile” value and the best I can do is process 1 month worth of statsictis.

I would like to point LogFile to a directory that contains my logs for entire year, in format described above, and have AWStats process all of those to get statistics fpr each month.

Please, point me in the right direction