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------------- AWStats --------------
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Advanced Web Statistics
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AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics) is a powerfull and featurefull web server
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logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web statistics including visitors,
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pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, broken
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links, robots and more...
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It works with IIS 5.0+, Apache and all major web, wap, proxy, streaming
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server log files (and even ftp servers or mail logs) on all Operating Systems.
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License: GNU GPL (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file),
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OSI Certified Open Source Software license.
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Release date: January 2004
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Platforms: All (Linux, NT, SCO, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2...)
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Author: Laurent Destailleur <eldy@users.sourceforge.net>
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AWStats official web site and latest version: http://awstats.sourceforge.net
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I - Features and requirements of AWStats
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I - 1) Features, what AWStats can show you
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I - 2) Requirements for using AWStats
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II - Install, Setup and Use AWStats
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IV - About the author, license and support
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I - FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS
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A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
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* Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS,
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* Visits duration and last visits,
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* Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits,
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* Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each day and hour),
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* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB),
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* Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list,
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* Most viewed, entry and exit pages,
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* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate),
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* Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser),
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* OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS),
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* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site,
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* HTTP errors (Page not found with last referer, ...),
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* Other personalized reports,
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* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks",
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* Ratio of Browsers that support: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader,
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Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader
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* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.
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It supports the following features as well:
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* Can analyze all log formats.
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* Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic
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filters capabilities for some charts),
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* Update of statistics can be made on demand from the web interface and
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not only from your scheduler,
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* Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing system),
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* Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages,
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* Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, support DNS cache files,
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* Country detection from IP location or domain name.
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* A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used,
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* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers),
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* Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection,
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* No need of rare perl libraries,
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* Dynamic reports as CGI output.<br>
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* Static reports in one or framed HTML/XML pages, experimental PDF export,
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* Look and colors can match your site design, can use CSS,
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* Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages,
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* Experimental PDF export,
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* Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit),
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* Free (GNU GPL), with sources (perl scripts),
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* A Webmin module also provided,
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* Available on all platforms.
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To use AWStats CGI script, you need the following requirements:
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* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.
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* To run awstats, from command line, your operating system must be able
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to run perl scripts (.pl files). To run awstats as a CGI (for real-time
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statistics), your web server must also be able to run such scripts.
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If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at:
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http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Windows)
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http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (All OS)
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The distribution of AWStats package includes the following files:
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docs/LICENSE GNU General Public Licence
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docs/* AWStats documentation (setup/usage...)
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl THE MAIN AWSTATS PROGRAM (CLI/CGI)
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/awredir.pl A tool to track click that exit site
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.model.conf An example of AWStats configure file
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/lang Directory with languages files
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/lib Directory with awstats reference info
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wwwroot/cgi-bin/plugins Directory with optional plugins
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wwwroot/icon/browser Directory with browsers icons
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wwwroot/icon/clock Directory with clocks icons
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wwwroot/icon/cpu Directory with cpu icons
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wwwroot/icon/flags Directory with country flags icons
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wwwroot/icon/os Directory with os icons
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wwwroot/icon/other Directory with all others icons
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wwwroot/css Samples of CSS files
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wwwroot/js Javascript sources for "Misc" feature
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tools/* Other provided tools
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tools/webmin/awstats-x.x.wbm A webmin module for AWStats
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II - INSTALL, SETUP AND USE AWSTATS
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The documentation available as of the date of this release is included, in
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HTML format, in the docs/ directory.
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You can find a most up-to-date documentation at:
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http://awstats.sourceforge.net
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Tests and results are available in AWStats documentation, in docs/ directory.
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IV - ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT
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Copyright (C) 2000-2003 - Laurent Destailleur - eldy@users.sourceforge.net
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details, in COPYING.TXT file.
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If you have not received a copy of this file along with this program, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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