Installing AWStats on NetBSD

AWStats is an open-source tool used to analyze website traffic. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of AWStats on NetBSD.

Pre-requisites

Make sure you have the following packages installed on your NetBSD system:

• Perl
• Apache Web Server
• GCC

Download AWStats

You can download the latest version of AWStats from the official website http://www.awstats.org/. You can download it directly on your NetBSD system using:

$ ftp http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-7.8.tar.gz

Install AWStats

1. Extract the downloaded archive:

   $ tar -xzf awstats-7.8.tar.gz
   

2. Move the extracted directory to the appropriate location in your web server document root. For instance, if your document root is located at /var/www/htdocs/, you can move it using:

   $ mv awstats-7.8 /var/www/htdocs/
   

3. Change the ownership of the directory to the user and group that owns the web server process. For instance, if your web server runs as the user and group www, run:

   $ chown -R www:www /var/www/htdocs/awstats-7.8
   

4. Configure AWStats by copying the sample configuration file provided in the wwwroot/cgi-bin/ directory to the same directory and renaming it to awstats.<yourdomainname>.conf. For instance, if your domain name is example.com, run:

   $ cd /var/www/htdocs/awstats-7.8/wwwroot/cgi-bin/
   $ cp awstats.model.conf awstats.example.com.conf
   

5. Open the newly created configuration file (awstats.example.com.conf in our example) in a text editor and modify the following parameters:

   • LogFile: Specify the path to the web server access log file that AWStats should analyze.
   • SiteDomain: Specify your domain name.
   • HostAliases: Specify any alternative domain names or IP addresses that your website can be accessed through.

6. Generate the initial AWStats data by running:

   $ perl awstats.pl -config=example.com -update
   

   This will analyze the log file and generate statistics. AWStats will store the results in the wwwroot/cgi-bin/data/ directory.

7. Run AWStats by visiting http://<yourdomainname>/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=<yourdomainname> in your web browser.

Conclusion

This tutorial has shown you how to install and configure AWStats on NetBSD. Now that AWStats is up and running, you can use it to monitor your website traffic and gain valuable insights into your users' behavior.

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