How To Install, Secure, And Automate AWStats (CentOS/RHEL)

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2011

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“AWStats is a free and very powerful tool that generates
advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics,
graphically. It can analyze log files from all major server tools
and convert them into nice graphical display. There are a lot of
articles out there for AWStats, the reason I decided to write this
one was to consolidate all the different tips and tricks I’ve
learned through my journey into one comprehensive article
associating the fantastic efforts of so many out there. There are a
few methods of installing AWStats, this article will describe the
simpler method of the two utilizing YUM.

“This article assumes that you have root/sudo access to achieve
all the goals required for a functional setup. This article also
assumes you have SELinux set to permissive or disabled and that
IPTables configuration is either disabled or customized for
AWStats. Let’s begin.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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