AWStats is an open-source tool that helps you analyze and monitor the traffic on your website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install AWStats on Elementary OS.
Before installing AWStats, make sure you have the following:
First, you need to download AWStats from the official website of AWStats, which is http://www.awstats.org/. You can download AWStats by clicking on the Download button on the homepage or by using the following command in the terminal:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-7.8.tar.gz
After downloading AWStats, extract the downloaded file using the following command:
tar zxvf awstats-7.8.tar.gz
The above command will extract the AWStats files in the current directory.
To make AWStats accessible via a web browser, we need to move the extracted files to the Apache web document root folder. Use the following command to move the files to the document root:
sudo mv awstats-7.8 /var/www/html/awstats
This command will move the extracted files to the /var/www/html/awstats directory. You can replace awstats with any other directory name of your choice.
AWStats uses a configuration file to read the log files and generate the reports. You can either use the default configuration file or create one for your website. To create a new configuration file for your website, navigate to the awstats directory and create a new file using the following command:
cd /var/www/html/awstats/
sudo nano awstats.example.com.conf
In the above command, replace example.com with your domain name. Edit the configuration file as required and save the changes.
After configuring the AWStats, we need to generate the statistics for the website using the following command:
sudo perl awstats.pl -config=example.com -update
This command will generate the statistics for your website using the configuration file awstats.example.com.conf that you created in the previous step.
You can now access the AWStats by opening a web browser and typing the following URL:
http://localhost/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=example.com
Replace example.com with your domain name. This will open the AWStats report on your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed AWStats on your Elementary OS system.
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