[TYPO3-ttnews] Does AWStats have to read the log typo3 generates?

[Oliver Rowlands]

Hi Bing,

May I suggest you repost this in typo3.english as this is not the 
correct newsgroup for this type of query.

Regards

Oliver

Bing Du wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> typo3 4.0.6
> AWStats 0.10.0
> 
> AWStats works fine for the multiple sites we're hosting.  The only issue
> we are facing now is the log files created by typo3 don't have hits on
> other types of files (e.g. pdf, doc, jpg etc) besides html.  I've searched
> for the awstats related threads on the typo3-english mailing list and
> found the trick
> http://www.typo3wizard.com/en/snippets/general-config/count-file-downloads-with-awstats.html.
> But I was not clear how to make it work for more than one domain because
> the log file name is required to be predefined in the script.  Anyway, now
> that AWStats is a log reader, I want to turn to use the access log Apache
> generates instead.  From what I've gathered from the mailing list, seems
> that should be possible.  The Apache access log can be written by root
> only. It's worldwide readable.  I'm not going to change that.
> 
> localconf.php:
> 
> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['logfile_dir'] = '/var/log/httpd/';
> 
> typoscript setup:
> 
> config.stat = 1
> config.stat_apache = 1
> config.stat_excludeBEuserHits = 1
> config.stat_apache_logfile=typo3-dev.engineering.iastate.edu-access.log
> 
> I got:
> 
> ERROR:
> Could not create directory '' to store data for AWStats. Please check
> write permissions.
> 
> I know typo3 is trying to write to the apache access log but cannot.  My
> question is how to just let AWStats read the Apache access log without
> typo3 generating its own log?  I tried AWStats stand alone and had no
> problem reading Apache's access log at all.  Can anybody shed some lights?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bing


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