Can I access directly Awstats without going through the cPanel?

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Can I access directly Awstats without going through the cPanel?

Solution Yes, this is possible and can be accomplished by following

The following is a user submitted FAQ, while it should work fine, it can not be supported by Reece Hosting Support.
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Accessing Awstats from outside the control panel is easy.

Step 1.

Download awstats from http://awstats.sourceforge.net

Step 2.

Uncompress awstats-5.6.tgz

Step 3.

Copy the contents of the uncompressed cgi-bin folder from your hard drive to the user cgi-bin directory (this includes awstats.pl, awstats.model.conf, and the lang, lib and plugins sub-directories).

Step 4.

If necessary (should not be needed with most setups), edit the first (top-most) line of awstats.pl file that is
#!/usr/bin/perl
to reflect the path were your Perl interpreter is installed. Default value works for most of Unix OS, but it also might be
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

Step 5.

Move AWStats icon sub-directories and its content into a directory readable by your web server, for example /home/users/public_html/icons

Step 6.

Copy awstats.model.conf file into a new file named awstats.myvirtualhostname.conf. This new file must be stored in
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin.

Step 7.

Edit this new config file with your own setup :
- Change LogFile value with full path of your web server log file
(The path is:
LogFile="/usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com").

- Check if LogFormat has the value "1" (it means "NCSA apache combined/ELF/XLF log format").

- Change DirIcons parameter to reflect relative path of icon directory.
(DirIcons="/icons")

- Edit SiteDomain parameter with the main domain name or the intranet web server name used to reach the web site to analyze (Example: www.mydomain.com).

IMPORTANT!
- Change DirData to use the same Statics file than Cpanel Awstats and do not loose any entry.
(DirData="/home/user/tmp/awstats/")

Step 8.

Access AwStats by the URL:

www.domain.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=domain.com

That's all!!!

The AwStats will refresh the Statics every 24 Hours.

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Article ID:	10
Category:	Website stats issues
Date added:	2010-09-06 03:02:01
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