HOWTO install AWStats on Opalstack

tsutton

Is anyone having issue with getting the data to appear for

Keywords used on search engines
Keyphrases used on search engines

Mine shows up as zero

sean

tsutton do you have entries in your site access logs (eg ~/logs/sites/sitename/access.txt) that show search engine keywords in the referring URLs? Most search engines (including Google) scrub them before handing the request off to your site.

sean

Hodson is it possible to get GeoIP setup with this so we can see from which countries hits are from?

I was able to get GeoIP working with the following steps:

Register for an account at maxmind.com.
Download the MaxMind GeoLite2 City and Country databases (binary mmdb, not CSV) from your MaxMind account and upload them to your AWStats app's shell user account. I used the GeoLite2 databases because they are free, but if you have a paid account then you can use the full GeoIP2 databases.

Edit your app's awstats.conf to enable the related plugins. The sections should already be present, you only need to uncomment the LoadPlugin lines for GeoIP2 City and Country and specify the path to your Maxmind DBs, eg:

LoadPlugin="geoip2_city /home/user/apps/stats/GeoLite2-City.mmdb"
...
LoadPlugin="geoip2_country /home/user/apps/stats/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb"

Test it by running ~/apps/appname/awstats_cron and then check your stats.

nhughes

sean I am trying to get GeoIP working as per these instructions. However, when I run ~/apps/appname/awstats_cron I get the error Can't locate Data/Validate/IP.pm in @INC and Compilation failed in require (path to)/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.conf. Do I (or you) need to install the "data::Validate::IP" Pearl module? Or am I missing a important step?

kylotan

If you get an error in step 7, it's because there's a double quote missing from the end of line 11 in step 4. 🙂

sean

kylotan thanks for the assist 🙂

igor

sean Did you guys switch to .log extension instead of .txt? I just opened log folders of couple of my apps and .txt files have 0B size, while now there are .log files and they contain data...

I did change some apps (can't remember if they are the same ones) to PHP 8.1, could that be the reason?

sean

igor Yes, the system was changed to use ".log" for all web server logging. The change becomes effective for existing sites after any update to the site is saved.

igor

So .log extension is here to stay? I can update LOG="$LOGDIR/access.txt-$TODAY.gz" to access.log and not worry it will be changed again to txt?

sean

igor Correct, the extension won't be changing again.

Van

For those who aren't Vim users or fans (raising my hand), you can use the Nano editor (more user friendly IMO) to edit crontab (step 8) as follows:

export VISUAL=nano; crontab -e

If you've never used Nano before, use CTRL-O to save your changes and CTRL-X to exit Nano.

Edit: The above command is only good for one command use. If you want nano to be the default editor for an entire SSH session use the following, courtesy of sean:

EDITOR=nano crontab -e

peter

nhughes You should be able to install the missing module with the following commands:

cd ~
curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus
export PATH=$HOME/perl5/bin:$PATH
cpanm Data::Validate::IP
export PERL5LIB=$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5

If you see any other issues, please email support@opalstack.com so we can look at your setup specifically and troubleshoot further.

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