Haha! Finally got Awstats work! Special thanks to Ravi's Tutorial: Installing AWstats at 1and1.com. It's kinda too professional for me to understand, but anyways I got it fixed. If you are using the 3-year free package offered by 1and1 and disappointed to get more technical support from it, go to Sri's unofficial 1and1 forum and it might help you a lot. This is the thread discussing about installing Awstats on 1and1.com. As I have promised a few days ago, I'm writing a hands-on tutorial on that. If you know nothing about SSH and some command-line stuff like me, just follow my steps.
1. Go download Awstats 6.0 here [ I installed Awstats 5.9, but I believe installment procedure should be the same]
2. Uncompress the zip file into a folder and upload all the files to your web server.
3. Whatever the folder name was, change it to awstats for your convenience.
4. Move all the folders in wwwroot directory into awstats. There should be awstats/cgi-bin, awstats/js...something like that.
5. You have to create a seperate conf file for every domain you want to track. For instance, you want to watch yourdomainname/blog. Log into your awstats/cgi-bin, copy the file awstats.model.conf and rename the new file awstats.blog.conf
6. Now what you need to do is to change the awstats.blog.conf file. Set its attributions to write and open it in any editor you desire.
7. Make some changes to the configuration file. The most important ones include: LogFile. Consult your web space provider for the path of your web site and change LogFile="/yourpath/logs/access.log.%WY-0.%DW-24". Then change LogType value with "W" for analyzing web server log files. Set the LogFormat which fits your server. Don't forget to sepcify SiteDomain = "youdomain.com". You may read through Awstats documentation for more information. Having made all those changes, bear in mind to make the awstats.blog.conf file only readable.
8. The last step is to set up the crontab scheduler to periodically automatically update the log analysis. This is kinda complex and you'd better follow Ravi's tutorial step by step. However, you should change it into */15****perl/yourpath/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl-config=blog-update as champion6 pointed out in his/her comment.
9. Done! Go to view http://yourdomain.com/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=blog and enjoy your Awstats!
Tried to email you but ran into problems with form mail.
Here is my info I tried to send. Please email me if you get a chance about awstats.
Dont' know if you have time, but I'have tried half a dozen Forums, and every lnk you have on Awstats including a few I found. I have some ifo here if you could check it out.
AWSTATS VERSION (no support for older versions than
5.x and beta
versions):5.9 and 6.0 (5.9 installed right now)
OS (windows/Unix)
WEB SERVER NAME (1and1)
PERL INTERPRETER NAME + VERSION (if known) :v5.6.1
built for i386-linux
If your site is online, give your awstats URL:
http://www.jesustribe.org/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?
config=blog
Your problem description :
I've tried the install with both 6.0 first and then 5.9.
Followed numerous install directions and then tried some
different configs to see what would happen.
At one point on 6.0 it had some logs read, but wouldn't
update from the point of installation, and the first
update.
Now Its not really doing anything. Here are some of my
settings right now.
LogFile="/kunden/homepages/**/*********/htdocs/log
s/access.log.%WY-0.%DW-24"
LogFormat=1
LogFormat= "%host %other %logname %time1 %
methodurl %code %bytesd %virtualname %refererquot %
uaquot %other"
I changed the log format and got this error, and a look
at the actual log format:
And this is a sample of records AWStats found in your
log file (the record number 50 in your log):
***.***.**.132 - - [28/Apr/2004:03:29:54 -
0400] "GET /blog HTTP/1.1" 301 247
www.jesustribe.org "http://blog.hotornot.com/?
keyword=witchcraft" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.0; T312461)" "-"
One thing is the htaccess file in my log directory. I don't
know if that is causing the problems or not. Its
something that my host has in there and I can't change
permissions on it or delete it.?? I even tried to set up
the authorized user in Awstats, but with now luck. It
wouldn't let me into the page.
I've been working on this off and on for a week almost.
Any help getting this up and running correctly would be
great. I really like this program better than what my new
host has for stats. Just cant' get it configured right for
some reason.
I would really appreciate any help you could give.
Hi,
when I started looking for information regarding AWStats at 1and1.com I stumbled across your blog and Ravi's tutorial, which was quite helpful.
I decided to add my own experience and wrote an updated tutorial myself.
Check it out, if you like: http://thegeekside.dnsalias.org/awstats
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