Installing AWStats (Part 2)
Author: Stuart Millington Publishing date: 26.06.2003 23:45
This article covers the first of two main changes to the AWStats configuration created in the last article. In this, brief, article the scripts are moved out of the cgi-bin directory (as they are only being run directly by a cron job) and into a non-web-accessible directory.
The first step in moving the scripts away from the cgi-bin directory is to create a new directory for them. This must be in the (admin owned) /usr/local/ file system space, so I'm using "/usr/local/etc/awstats" - along the same lines as the Webalizer configuration files. Log in, as admin, to a shell prompt (via SSH as Telnet is, rightly, being withdrawn) and create the directory.
Now copy the files installed in the previous article with:
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/lang .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/lib .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/plugins .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/awstats.pl .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/awstats.sh .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/awstats.sitename.conf .
mv /www/vhtdocs/sitedir/cgi-bin/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl .
All of the file permissions should remain intact, but you will have to edit "awstats.sh" and update the paths to the to the cgi-bin directory so that they point to the new directory (on the "cd" and "awstats_buildstaticpages.pl" lines). You also need to edit your crontab to point to the new location of the awstats.sh file (with "crontab -e").
You can test your new configuration by running the shell script manually, e.g. from the shell: "/usr/local/etc/awstats/awstats.sh". If that runs and the statistics web pages are updated, you have moved the scripts correctly.
The next article will, finally, document (the non-trivial) installation of the Perl modules necessary to run Geo::IPfree as a non-root user.
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