GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and an interactive viewer that runs in a terminal. In this tutorial, we'll install GoAccess on FreeBSD latest.
Before we proceed with the installation process, Make sure your FreeBSD version is up to date by running the following command:
sudo freebsd-update fetch install
The GoAccess package is available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Follow these steps to install GoAccess using the ports tree:
Open a terminal window.
Update the ports tree:
sudo portsnap fetch update
Move to the ports directory for GoAccess:
cd /usr/ports/www/goaccess
Build and install GoAccess using the following command:
sudo make install clean
This will download and install GoAccess and all its dependencies.
After this process, GoAccess should now be installed on your FreeBSD machine.
To run GoAccess, you'll need to have access to a web server's logs. By default, GoAccess searches for and reads a webserver's logs from the standard Apache log file at /var/log/httpd-access.log. To use GoAccess with other web servers or non-default log file locations, you'll need to specify them as arguments when running the program.
Here's an example of how to use GoAccess to analyze an Apache access log:
Open a terminal window.
Type the following command to start the GoAccess process:
sudo goaccess /var/log/httpd-access.log
This will start GoAccess and open the file at /var/log/httpd-access.log for analysis.
It will then display an interactive console interface that provides detailed statistics and real-time analysis of your web server's access log.
That's it! You have successfully installed and started with GoAccess on FreeBSD.
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