Command Center

This page summarizes how to perform a basic installation of AWStats on CentOS 5. This tutorial assumes you are either logged in as root or have sudo.

Install

Add RPMForge Yum Repository

It is recommended that you configure yum-priorities prior to following this tutorial to avoid having base CentOS packages being overwritten by the RPMForge repository. Instructions to do so can be found on the CentOS Wiki.

• For x86 (32-bit) systems
  • rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
    • From Dag Wieers

• For x64 (64-bit) systems
  • rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
    • From Dag Wieers

Install & Configure Prerequisites

• Install Apache
  • yum install httpd

• Configure Apache to start on boot
  • /sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 httpd on

• Configure iptables to allow Apache traffic
  • /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
  • /etc/init.d/iptables save
  • /etc/init.d/iptables restart

Install & Configure AWStats

• Install AWStats
  • yum install awstats

• Modify AWStats Apache Configuration
  • Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf

Alias /awstats/icon/ /var/www/awstats/icon/

ScriptAlias /awstats/ /var/www/awstats/

       DirectoryIndex awstats.pl
       Options ExecCGI
       order deny,allow
       allow from all

• Edit the following lines in the default awstats configuration file
  • /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf

SiteDomain="."

HostAliases=""

• Rename config file
  • mv /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf /etc/awstats/awstats...conf

• Update Statistics (Note: By default, statistics will be updated every hour.)
  • /usr/bin/awstats_updateall.pl now -confdir="/etc" -awstatsprog="/var/www/awstats/awstats.pl"

• Start Apache
  • /etc/init.d/httpd start

Verify Install

• Go to

  http://./awstats/awstats.pl?config=.