Install AWStats

Install AWStats

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Here is a step by step guide to install AWStats on Centos server running Apache

Here is a guide of how to install AWStats on Centos 7 running the Apache web server. This guide assumes that you already have Apache / httpd installed

Install epel-release if it isn't already installed

yum install epel-release

Install AWStats

yum install awstats

Edit the configuration to allow access from all or an IP address. Change 111.111.111.111 to your IP address, or set to all to allow all IP addresses to access it (not recommended). Save the config

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
        # Apache 2.4
        Require ip 111.111.111.111   
        # Apache 2.2
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from 111.111.111.111
        Allow from ::1
    
# Additional Perl modules
    SetEnv PERL5LIB /usr/share/awstats/lib:/usr/share/awstats/plugins

Restart Apache (service httpd restart if older than Centos 7)

systemctl restart httpd

Now we need to copy and update the AWStats config file for our website. Change the values highlighted to your settings

cp /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf /etc/awstats/awstats.mywebsite.com.conf
vim /etc/awstats/awstats.mywebsite.com.conf

LogFile="/var/log/httpd/access_log" #left as is as this is where our httpd access file is
SiteDomain="mywebsite.com"
HostAliases="mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com"

Update the logs file

perl /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=mywebsite.com -update

# You should see the following
Create/Update database for config "/etc/awstats/awstats.domain.com.conf" by AWStats version 7.7 (build 20180105)
From data in log file "/var/log/httpd/access_log"...
Phase 1 : First bypass old records, searching new record...
Searching new records from beginning of log file...
Phase 2 : Now process new records (Flush history on disk after 20000 hosts)...
Jumped lines in file: 0
Parsed lines in file: 6853
 Found 1 dropped records,
 Found 0 comments,
 Found 0 blank records,
 Found 65 corrupted records,
 Found 0 old records,
 Found 6787 new qualified records.

Schedule the script to run with CRON so you don't need to manually run it each time (or change root to another user)

vim /var/spool/cron/root

0 2 * * *                /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=mywebsite.com -update

I decided to access AWStats from a different port, this was so not to interfere with the site itself. I added the following lines

vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Listen 81
systemctl restart httpd

Open the firewall port for 81

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=81/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Open AWStats from the browser

http://mywebsite.com:81/awstats/awstats.pl?config=mywebsite.com

It should look something like this. Also confirm you can't access the site from other IP addresses except for your own.

Notes:

AWStats bin files sit in /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/