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 into a new file /etc/apache2/conf.d/awstats:
Alias /awstats-icon/ /usr/share/awstats/icon/ |
$ wajig restart apache2 |
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.)