AWstats bugs

I just installed AWstats on a freebsd system from ports, version 6.95 and ran into some issues with the installer.

First, awstats_configure.pl has a mistake that leads to:

Error: Failed to open ‘(your awstats.model.conf’) for read.

This is because $AWSTATS_PATH is prepended to “/wwwroot/” instead of “/” throughout the script. Search and replace config.pl to fix or try this one awstats_configure.pl (no warranties).

Second, there’s an error in the httpd.conf configuration that fails to provide sufficient permissions. Add

Options FollowSymLinks

inside the <directory> directive to get the pages to load right.

Third, the icons dont display (or display as broken images) due to a small typo in the icons directory specification. At line 222 in the yoursite.conf file that awstats_configure.pl generates, use

DirIcons=”/awstatsicons”

and make sure the httpd.conf directive reads

Alias /awstatsicons “/usr/local/www/awstats/icons/”

(not …/icon/”) . I use setup an awstats.conf file in /apache22/Includes (see below) and take the directives out of httpd.conf myself.