Installing AWStats on OpenSUSE

AWStats is a powerful open source tool designed to generate detailed statistics about web traffic for various web servers. If you want to install it on OpenSUSE, we've got you covered. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the entire process step-by-step.

Step 1: Download the AWStats package

First, you need to download the latest version of AWStats from the official website (http://www.awstats.org/). Alternatively, you can use the following Linux command to download the package:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-7.8.tar.gz

Step 2: Install dependencies

Before you start the installation process, you need to install some dependencies. The following command should take care of everything:

sudo zypper in apache2 perl-HTML-Parser perl-URI perl-libwww-perl perl-Encode-Detect perl-Time-HiRes perl-Net-DNS

Step 3: Extract the package

Next, you need to extract the downloaded package to a directory. You can use the following command:

tar zxvf awstats-7.8.tar.gz

This will create a new directory called "awstats-7.8".

Step 4: Configure AWStats

Once you have extracted the package, navigate to the "awstats-7.8" directory.

cd awstats-7.8

Now run the following command to configure AWStats:

sudo perl awstats_configure.pl

This will launch a configuration wizard that will guide you through the process of configuring AWStats. You will be prompted to answer a few questions such as the location of the configuration file and where to store the log files. Once you have answered all the questions, the configuration file will be created.

Step 5: Configure Apache

In order to use AWStats, you need to configure Apache to serve the AWStats pages. You can do this by adding the following lines to your Apache configuration file:

Alias /awstatsclasses "/usr/share/awstats/lib/"
Alias /awstats-icon/ "/usr/share/awstats/icon/"
Alias /awstatscss "/usr/share/awstats/css/"
ScriptAlias /awstats/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

Save the file and then restart Apache:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Step 6: Generate statistics

Now you are ready to generate your first AWStats statistics. Use the following command:

sudo /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=<NAME-OF-YOUR-SITE> -update

This will generate the statistics for your website based on the configuration file you created earlier. You can now access the statistics page by going to "http:///awstats/awstats.pl?config=" in your web browser.

Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed AWStats on your OpenSUSE server. You can now use this powerful tool to generate detailed statistics about your web traffic.