What's up with AwStats

less love?

[Hobbs]

I'm getting a feeling that AwStats is not as loved by its developers as it used to be, far less updates nowadays.

Since I'm on this topic,
Is there a way for AwStats to report DAILY full stats and metrics not the whole month in one page?

I'm asking for this as when few days have passed, the relevance of today seems to always get buried under the previous days, if not is there a package out there that does daily reports well?

[mack]

I tend to agree, Awstats is good, but not great. I would also like to be able to view a lot more data on a per day basis.

It's always worth contacting the developer with feature requests. I'm sure we're not alone with this requirement.

Mack.

[Hobbs]

Just found a solution for awstats to display daily and even hourly reports, just Google the following (awstats databasebreak)

And it works too!

[mack]

Thanks for that, does seam to be a nice addition, have you installed it? Did it cause any config issues?

Mack.

[Hobbs]

Hi,
Did not require any installation, it's sort of a less documented feature, all it took was requesting the right url:

e.g.

If you are getting your stats from:

www. site. com/. ./awstatsdirectory/awstats.pl

Then to get daily report you enter:

www. site. com/. ./awstatsdirectory/awstats.pl?databasebreak=day&day=04&month=03&year=2007&config=YourConfigFile

In my case I needed to monitor the visiting IPs for today, so at the end all it needs is "&output=allhosts"
And it looks like:

www. site. com/. ./awstatsdirectory/awstats.pl?databasebreak=day&day=04&month=03&year=2007&config=YourConfigFile&output=allhosts

To update it you simply click the update link..

As for issues, there is always the server load issue if you update frequently, also it creates a file in the default location for every time you update, so those need cleaning, or to be configured to be stored in their own directory to make things easier to clean up.

[edited by: Hobbs at 11:45 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2007]