Installing Webalizer on Ubuntu (Gusty)

Installing Webalizer on Ubuntu (Gusty)
Webalizer is a nice application that can give you plenty of stats about your web server(s)

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Now on to the process!

Run:

root@blaster:~# apt-get install webalizer

There was a problem with webalizer looking in the wrong place for my Apache logs.

root@blaster:~# webalizer

Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.6.22-14-386) locale: en_US.UTF-8

Error: Can't open log file /var/log/apache2/access.log.1

root@blaster:~# vi /etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf

My apache log file is in access.log, not access.log.1. Make that change and then fire off webalizer. (run /usr/bin/webalizer)

root@blaster:~# webalizer

Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.6.22-14-386) locale: en_US.UTF-8

Using logfile /var/log/apache2/access.log (clf)

Using default GeoIP database

Creating output in /var/www/webalizer

Hostname for reports is 'blaster'

History file not found...

Generating report for June 2008

Generating summary report

Saving history information...

673 records (11 ignored) in 3.00 seconds, 224/sec

Now open your browser to: http://install-use-ubuntu.gotdns.com/webalizer (or http://localhost/webalizer ...your hostname)

I would suggest adding /usr/bin/webalizer to cron daily to keep the information up to date and if you forget, your logs may roll and you may lose valuable information.

run: crontab -e and put in the last line for webalizer. I am running it at 1:05am each morning.

root@blaster:~# crontab -l

# m h dom mon dow command

30 2 * * * /usr/bin/do_rsync

5 1 * * * /usr/bin/webalizer



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