AWStats Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC

Importing historic log data

Generating data files

I had previous logfiles in /var/log/nginx that looked like this as a
result of logrotate:

   blog.access.log-20130625.gz
   blog.access.log-20130626.gz
   blog.access.log-20130628.gz
   blog.access.log-20130701.gz
   blog.access.log-20130703.gz
   blog.access.log-20130704.gz
   blog.access.log-20130705.gz

To import these, I removed the AWStats database files in
/var/lib/awstats/blog. I then temporarily changed the “LogFile”
parameter in the config file (/etc/awstats/awstats.blog.example.conf)
to this:

   LogFile="zcat /var/log/nginx/blog.access.log*.gz |"

Should be self-exlanatory. Then ran the update script as usual:

   /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now

This generated the older database entries. There are
other
methods as well, especially if
you don’t have access to your older records.

You should now regenerate the static HTML.

Regenerating static HTML pages

For the months and years you have log files for, write two small for
loops!

for YEAR in $(seq 2010 2013); do
    for MONTH in $(seq 4 8); do
        STATSDIR=/var/www/html/stats/$YEAR/$MONTH
        mkdir -p $STATSDIR
        /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -dir=$STATSDIR -month=$MONTH -year=$YEAR -config=blog.example.com
    done
done

Ta da!

Category: Nikhil’s Notes
Category: Installation Logs
Category: Linux