How do I configure AWStats?

Installing and configuring AwStats

  1. Install the AwStats package.
  2. Enable the CGI module in Apache.
  3. Restart Apache.
  4. Duplicate the AwStats default configuration file to one with your domain name.
  5. Edit the your AwStats domain name configuration file.
  6. Update the settings shown below.
  7. Save and close the file.

How do I use AWStats on Windows?

Steps

  1. Download, Install ActivePerl.
  2. Download AWStats.
  3. Setup DNS (Optional)
  4. Setup IIS Site.
  5. Configure App Pool as 32 bit.
  6. Setup Perl Handler, approve isapi.
  7. Setup AWStats conf files.
  8. Enable frequent updates.

What is AWStats file?

AWStats is an open source Web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail, and FTP servers. AWStats parses and analyzes server log files, producing HTML reports.

How reliable is AWStats?

AWStats maintains a list of IPs that belong to spiders or crawlers, but this list might not always be exhaustive, so, it is not cent per cent accurate. AWStats counts users by their IP addresses while Google analytics uses browser specific cookies for reporting the same.

Where does AWStats store data?

AWStats statistics database files are saved in directory defined by the DirData parameter in configuration file. With data in log file “/pathtoyourlog/yourlog.

How do I reset AWStats?

Go to the File Manager. Select the Home directory and click Go. Navigate to the tmp/awstats folder. Move the files to a backup folder for future reference, or delete them from the directory.

How do I read AWStats?

Using AWStats to View Website Visitor Statistics in cPanel Log in to cPanel. In the “Metrics” section, click the “Awstats” link or icon. If there are multiple domains in your account, you will be prompted to choose the domain for which you would like to see stats. Click the “View” link for the domain.

Can I delete AWStats?

When managing a new website, your webserver may save old stats that you don’t want to show in your AWStats statistics. These stats can be cleared out by removing them from your tmp/awstats folder.

What is AWStats folder?

AWStats is a free application that is powerful and packed with tools that generates advance statistics of Web, Ftp and Mail server graphically. AWStats works as a CGI and shows you all information contained in logs via graphical web pages.

Is AWStats GDPR compliant?

From my research, AWStats today is not GDPR compliant. So as long as the IP addresses are stored in the txt files and Germany classifies IP addresses as personally identifiable data, we are pretty much out of luck.

What is AWStats in cPanel?

AWstats is a popular server log analyzer included with cPanel. It can generate a wide variety of traffic reports allowing you to understand who is visiting your website when they are visiting and which pages they visit the most.

What is pages and hits in AWStats?

Pages: total number of pages viewed by visitors. Hits: total number of data chunks delivered to visitor, a single page would count as two hits if it contained text and a graphic.