How to access Awstats from outside the control panel ?

Accessing Awstats from outside the control panel is easy.

Step 1.

Download awstats from awstats.sourceforge.net

Step 2.

Uncompress awstats-5.6.tgz

Step 3.

Copy the contents of the uncompressed cgi-bin folder from your hard drive to the user cgi-bin directory (this includes awstats.pl, awstats.model.conf, and the lang, lib and plugins sub-directories).

Step 4.

If necessary (should not be needed with most setups), edit the first (top-most) line of awstats.pl file that is

#!/usr/bin/perl

to reflect the path were your Perl interpreter is installed. Default value works for most of Unix OS, but it also might be #!/usr/local/bin/perl

Step 5.

Move AWStats icon sub-directories and its content into a directory readable by your web server, for example /home/users/public_html/icons

Step 6.

Copy awstats.model.conf file into a new file named awstats.myvirtualhostname.conf.

This new file must be stored in /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin.

Step 7.

Edit this new config file with your own setup :

- Change LogFile value with full path of your web server log file (The path is: LogFile=”/usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com”).
- Check if LogFormat has the value “1″ (it means “NCSA apache combined/ELF/XLF log format”).
- Change DirIcons parameter to reflect relative path of icon directory. (DirIcons=”/icons”)
- Edit SiteDomain parameter with the main domain name or the intranet web server name used to reach the web site to analyze (Example: www.mydomain.com).

IMPORTANT!
- Change DirData to use the same Statics file than Cpanel Awstats and do not loose any entry.
(DirData=”/home/user/tmp/awstats/”)

Step 8.

Access AwStats by the URL:
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=domain.com

Done!!!

The AwStats will refresh the Statics every 24 Hours.

Is it possible to allow users to update Awstats from the Cpanel?

Yes, Change the parameter “AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser” in /usr/local/cpanel/etc/awstats.conf set to 1,

AWStats add a button on report page to “update” statistics from a web browser. This is not a good idea, because Update process can be long so you might experience “time out” browser errors if you don’t launch AWStats enough frequently. Also, it take around 12-24 hours to take into effect.

There is an option in WHM>> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings>>Stats and Logs to “Allow users to update Awstats from cPanel“.

How to update Awstats and webalizer via shell?

We could update the webalizer using the command /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/english/webalizer -N 10 -D /home/username/tmp/webalizer/dns_cache.db -R 250 -p -n domain.com -o /home/username/tmp/webalizer /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com

The Awstats can be updated by using the script /scripts/runweblogs accountname