Comments on: Apache Log file analyzer Using Awstats in Debian

By: Jaime Alberto Silva

Jaime Alberto Silva — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:18:03 +0000

Is there an updated tutorial on this topic? I’m using Debian testing (sept 2009) and I’ve found that there is no wwwroot directory in /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples. I’ve also found that the awstats_configure.pl paths are still not changed by package maintainers.

Is there an easier to configure tool for web log analysis?

By: Gabriel Filion

Gabriel Filion — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:34:14 +0000

Lachlan: even though your logrotate runs daily, you have set the config “weekly” in your logrotate file for apache. it will thus rotate only once every week. change it to “daily” if you want dayly rotation of your logs.

By: Lachlan Musicman

Lachlan Musicman — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:54:40 +0000

Hola,

I’ve got a successful Awstats install that I created using roughly the same procedure. I might have followed the debianhelp instructions though…

I was wondering if you know much about the cron part?

I can’t seem to get the cron working. I don’t have a special cron for awstats – I’ve got my logrotate set up as follows:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 644 root adm
sharedscripts
prerotate
/path/to/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -config=engagemedia
.org -update -awstatsprog=/path/to/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -dir=/path/to/awstats/ -buil
ddate=%YY%MM%DD
endscript
postrotate
if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
fi
endscript
}

If I run “logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf from the command line, it works fine, but cron wont run it, despite logrotate being in /etc/cron.daily?

less /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

#!/bin/sh

test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Help appreciated