Nice jijo! Thanks for the tip. This looks good. Hoping I get to know Debian soon. ;)
Lanz On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:27, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Fellow PLUGgers, > > At The Leather Collection, Inc., we have an "everything-server" that > among other tasks, serves a number of name-based virtual hosts using > Apache. Recently I wanted to find out how each virtual host was > "utilized", and after a quick search, found AWStats[1]. > > It's pretty funky, and best of all, is straightforward to get up and > running. On our Debian GNU/Linux server, an > > # apt-get install awstats > > retrieved the package and all its prerequisites. Because I had been > doing minimal logging, I had to reconfigure the Apache virtual hosts to > do logging using the 'combined' logging format for maximum information. > Then I built configuration files in /etc/awstats, one per virtual host, > using the provided /usr/share/doc/awstats/awstats.model.conf.gz, which > came complete with explanatory comments. > > AWStats is very flexible. It has a built-in authentication checking > mechanism, which allows you to specify wether basic authentication will > be required and which users must be logged on. It doesn't do the actual > authentication, which is off-loaded to the web server (Apache, in my > case). It does, however, allow stats for certain virtual hosts to be > accesible by everyone, and others to be restricted, without requiring > multiple CGIs installed. > > The reports generated from the 'combined' log files are also very > informative. I've made the stats for the main free.net.ph website[2] > public, for those who want a preview of sorts. It's not yet very > populated, though: I restarted the logs before setting things up the > other day. > > BTW, some of you may notice that the main free.net.ph website is powered > by Zope. It is. Apache sits in front of it, though, and passes things > off using a combination of mod_rewrite and mod_proxy. That's how I'm > able to make accesses to the awstats.pl CGI go through without having to > muck with Zope. > > Coolness, free software is! :) > > --> Jijo > > [1] http://awstats.sourceforge.net > [3] http://free.net.ph/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
