help with awstats

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i have several issues with awstats on each site
[ol]
[li]there seams to be a permission issue because none of the images show in the bar charts and when i view the image i get a forbidden error

[code:1]Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /awstatsicons/other/vp.png on this server.[/code:1]
[/li]
[li]there is also an issue with the URL
When I visit www.mysite.com/awstats i get this error

[code:1]
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /awstats/ on this server.
NOYB Server at www.mysite.org Port 80
[/code:1]
[/li]
[li]the stats dont update on the schedule[/li]
[/ol]

2

I have tried to put an .htaccess file in the /awstats folder
and that did not work

i tried to put an index.html file with a link to the awstats.pl and that did not work, in fact the .html file was a 404 error…

i’m at loss here… anyone got a clue how i can make the www.tld.com/awstats work?

3

I dunno. What’s in the error_log?

4

here is the error log:

[code:1]
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/other/he.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/other/hx.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/os/unknown.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/os/win.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/os/mac.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/os/linux.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/browser/unknown.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/browser/msie.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/browser/firefox.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/browser/mozilla.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 08:55:15 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon/browser/netscape.png, referer: http://www.my-site.org/awstats/awstats.pl?month=12&year=2007&output=main&config=www.my-site.org&framename=mainright
[Thu Dec 13 09:56:40 2007] [error] [client 111.111.111.111] attempt to invoke directory as script: /home/my-site/cgi-bin/

[/code:1]

5

These errors could be because Apache is configured not to follow symlinks. Virtualmin sets up an awstats link in /public_html so that these images can be displayed.

I’m not sure about the other problems…the last one is weird, and one I’ve never seen. Not sure why /cgi-bin/ would be invoked as a script. Are you sure you don’t have some pre-existing configuration that might be mixing badly with Virtualmin’s awstats configuration?

6

This is a new server with a fresh install of Centos 5 and virtualmin pro.

there has been NO ‘special’ setup or pre-existing configuration

7

every site (even newly created ones)
do not allow for the visitor to view the stats unless then neter the full path.

don’t work
www.my-site.com/awstats

[code:1]
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /awstats/ on this server.
[/code:1]

i’ve created an index.html file under the /public_html/awstats/index.html and i get a 404

does work get 404
www.my-site.com/awstats/index.html

[code:1]Not Found
The requested URL /awstats/index.html was not found on this server.[/code:1]

does work
www.my-site.com/awstats/awstats.pl

sp now what?
How do i get the following to show the stats page?
www.my-site.com/awstats/

8

BUMP

9

I still am at a loss as to how i can make this work.
i’ve tried to edit the httpd.conf file directly and that has not worked…any help???

10

Oh, somehow I thought awstats didn’t actually work. It actually looks like access to AWStats through Apache is a bit broken, currently (I’ve never used it that way–most folks get to it through the Virtualmin interface, in the Logs and Reports menu, which works fine). To get the behavior you’re after, you’ll want a RewriteRule, though the specifics aren’t obvious to me at the moment–the images are broken in the current configuration even without complicating it with a redirect rule or alternate ScriptAlias, and so I need to figure out how to fix that.

Any reason you don’t like viewing AWStats from within Virtualmin?

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Any reason you don't like viewing AWStats from within Virtualmin?

My hosting clients do NOT want to go through Virtualmin to see their stats.
They are used to viewing www.site.com/awstats

i found 1 fix for the broken images

[code:1]
change this line
#DirIcons="/awstatsicons"
to
DirIcons="/awstats-icon"
[/code:1]

but that does not solve the URL issue

12

On my virtualmin-server the link is http://domain/stats in stead of http://domain/awstats.

RJB

13
On my virtualmin-server the link is http://domain/stats

This is for WEBLIZER and NOT AwStats

14

Sorry,

I’m a newbie and already thought that my answer would be to easy.
At least I now discovered that there are two analyzers.

15
At least I now discovered that there are two analyzers.

I prefer AwStats over weblizer…

16

Looks like this will do the trick:

ScriptAlias /awstats /home/domain/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

Instead of the usual:

ScriptAlias/awstats /home/domain/cgi-bin/

It could also be done with a Redirect or a Proxy rule, I think.

17

Hey,

While I realize this thread is ancient, and most probably figured it out.

The problem with “awstatsicons” is easy to fix.

There is a file called:

/etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf

Inside the file locate the section reading:

<Directory “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot”>


Options None


AllowOverride None


Order allow,deny


Allow from 127.0.0.1


</Directory>

Change the following lines to suite your needs:

Order allow,deny


Allow from 127.0.0.1

Or simply comment them out.

Once this is complete, the stats will show the icons when going to:

http://www.mydomain.com/awstats/awstats.pl

Later folks!

–
Peter

18

I had this same problem with the bar charts not being displayed. I am using CENTOS 6.4 and Virtualmin 4.02.gpl

when accessing the awstats from the URL www.whateverdomain.com/awstats/awstats.pl the page would display but all the images that made up the bar chart colored lines would not.

As root, Edit:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf

and comment out the line:
Alias /awstatsicons “/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/icon”

just put a # in front of that line to comment it out.

Then restart your web server and you are good to go.