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Hello.

Ok, I copied your script to a file called runwebalizer in the folder /home/me/webalizer

But i can't run the next part, as apparently there is no crontab for me:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ crontab -l | grep webalizer
no crontab for me

I meant to ask you about that the other day, for now I have been having to just get root access to manually run webalizer when ever I want to update the stats.

If I try to run webalizer as a normal user I get this error:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ webalizer
Error: Can't open log file /var/log/httpd/access_log

When I try your ls command I get this:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ ls -ld /var/www/html/usage
drwxrwxr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Mar 18 22:58 /var/www/html/usage

PS: I might have caused my self more problems as I have been going round changing file owners and file groups and can't remember what they where before I started trying to 'fix' the problem

As for errors in my log file; These look to me like its some file permissions I have messed up somewhere:

[Tue Mar 22 09:21:45 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/usage, referer: http://192.168.1.4/

I was trying to run the stats from another machine on the network.

So, I guess it comes down to this: "What did I do wrong?"

Thanks

Dave

dickinsd wrote:Hello.

Ok, I copied your script to a file called runwebalizer in the folder /home/me/webalizer

But i can't run the next part, as apparently there is no crontab for me:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ crontab -l | grep webalizer
no crontab for me

I meant to ask you about that the other day, for now I have been having to just get root access to manually run webalizer when ever I want to update the stats.

There won't be a crontab until you have an entry in it. That just means you don't have any jobs scheduled. To add a cron job just run "crontab -e".

If I try to run webalizer as a normal user I get this error:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ webalizer
Error: Can't open log file /var/log/httpd/access_log

Assuming you don't care if other users on your system can read your Apache logs:

# chmod a+rx /var/log/httpd

Otherwise set permissions as restrictive as you need on the logs but make sure the user you run webalizer under has permission to read them.

When I try your ls command I get this:

[me@Eval01 ~]$ ls -ld /var/www/html/usage
drwxrwxr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Mar 18 22:58 /var/www/html/usage

PS: I might have caused my self more problems as I have been going round changing file owners and file groups and can't remember what they where before I started trying to 'fix' the problem :cry:

The permissions are right *if* you run your webalizer program under the user "webalizer". Also make sure the files in that directory are owned by that user.

As for errors in my log file; These look to me like its some file permissions I have messed up somewhere:

[Tue Mar 22 09:21:45 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/usage, referer: http://192.168.1.4/

I was trying to run the stats from another machine on the network.

This one is confusing. The error message in your log refers to /var/www/usage and your webalizer directory is actually /var/www/html/usage. The default web root should be "/var/www/html" and it would almost appear that yours is set to "/var/www". Did you happen to change anything in your httpd.conf recently?

Awstats rules as a log file analyzer. That is your best bet. There is an RPM out there that i ran and I cant be hapier.

Make sure you have your AWSTATS patched or upgrade to the latest release. There is a security hole in old releases that give malicious users a gaping hole to walk right through. This exploit was used to take down high profile sights such as the phpBB support site about a month ago.