Give
access to AWSTATS without giving access to cPanel!
If you maintain websites for your customers, you may have
wanted to give them access to the statistics collected by
Awstats. But until now, the only way to view these statistics
was to give them full access to cPanel. The members of TotalChoice Hosting did some work recently and came up
with this alternative!
1. Download the Awstats.zip
file to your PC, and unzip it. This will create two
subdirectories (images and stats).
2. Go to the stats subdirectory and edit the config.php
file (click here for
help from other members using this script. TotalChoice staff does not provide support for 3rd party scripts.)
3. Upload the stats directory to your web site, under
public_html (creating public_html/stats)
4. Open a browser to http://www.yoursite.com/stats
to logon and view your stats!
PLEASE NOTE: If instead of receiving a login prompt
at step 4, you receive a "This page cannot be displayed"
error message, check to see if you have installed the
February 2004 Cumulative Security Update for Internet
Explorer (MS04-004)
from Microsoft (832894).
If so, this security update breaks or blocks the method
used to pass the userid and password to the stats program.
Microsoft has posted a fix (834489)
for this problem. We have tested this work around, and
have created a simple, one line registry patch to correct
this error.
Simply double click on the link below, click on Open,
and then click to install this registry patch. IE
Registry Fix
Tracking
screen resolutions
TCH-Raul has provided these instructions
for installing a javascript on your web site to track miscellaneous
information, such as: screen size, screen color depth, Java
enabled, plugins for Macromedia, Realplayer, QuickTime,
MediaPlayer and Acrobat PDF
1. Download the custom javascript file 'aws_misc_tracker.js'
from his web site
2. Create directory "js" under
your public_html directory and then upload the custom javascript
file to it
3. Modify your web site's home page by adding the following
code toward the end of the HTML page, just before the </body>
tag: <script language="javascript" src="/js/awstats_misc_tracker.js">
Customizing
Stats
Recently, users on the TCH discussion forums identified
a way to customize AWSTATS. The config file is located in
the /tmp directory. But, by default, if you change or modify
it, the next day TCH servers replace it with the original
version!
Solution? Set the permission of the config file to read
only (chmod 444)
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