The AWStats stands for Advanced Web Statistics. The AWStats is a web software written in Perl language. It is an advanced log file analyser having lots of advance statistics features. The AWStats is the most widely used log analyser program with Apache Web Servers on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Amazon Linux. This tutorial shows how to install and configure AWStats for Apache. You need to follow all the steps carefully to setup the AWStats for Apache.
Step-1(Install the Apache Web Server on EL)
# dnf install httpd* && systemctl enable httpd
Install the EPEL Repository
# wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
Step-2 (Install the AWStats using yum command)
# dnf install awstats
Change the IP with your FQDN in host file
# vim /etc/hosts
Sample Output
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
You can Change it with your IP address and FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
127.0.0.1 techbrown.com
192.168.0.1 techbrown.com
Step-3 (Allow and Deny your IP Address on AWStats Configuration file)
# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf
Find the given lines and after that you can Allow and Deny your IP Address using Allow from and Deny From by adding the IP address after the parameter.
<Directory "/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot">
Options None
AllowOverride None
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.4
Require local
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.2
Order allow,deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from 192.168.0.1
</IfModule>
</Directory>
Step-4 (Copy the default AWStats FQDN with your AWStats FQDN configuration file)
# cp -rv /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf /etc/awstats/awstats.techbrown.com.conf
Edit the AWStats FQDN file with your Domain Name and Host Aliases
# vim /etc/awstats/awstats.techbrown.com.conf
Find the given lines and replace with your FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
SiteDomain="techbrown.com"
Find the given lines and replace with your FQDN and IP Address
HostAliases="www.techbrown.com localhost 127.0.0.1"
Restart the Apache Services
# systemctl restart httpd
Step-5 (Update the AWStats Configuration File)
# /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=techbrown.com -update
Sample Output
Create/Update database for config "/etc/awstats/awstats.techbrown.com.conf" by AWStats version 7.4 (build 20150714)
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: 130
Found 114 dropped records,
Found 0 comments,
Found 0 blank records,
Found 0 corrupted records,
Found 0 old records,
Found 16 new qualified records.
Step-6 (Test AWStats whether it is working or not)
Open Web Browser to visit AWstats page For that you can visit http://techbrown.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=techbrown.com
You can change the FQDN with your domain name and Web Browser Shows AWStats Web panel.
If it Shows AWStats Web panel then it works successfully with Apache Web Server on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Amazon Linux if not then follow all the steps carefully.
Congratulations now you have installed Awstats on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Amazon Linux.
