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

[Bing Du]

> 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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Oh, sure.  I didn't realize I posted to the tt_news list.  Sorry about
being off topic.

Bing