Web Site Monitor

[Dave Howorth]

Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>> On 19/02/07, User Iam <vramnum10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You could try awstats (its in the repositories).
>> There is also webalizer (in Universe).
> 
> If you go for awstats (it's a great tool), please remove the cgi-script
> as soon as possible or make sure that no-one from the "evil" world can
> run it. The past has shown it is not the safest script around.

I have some log files to analyse that I've downloaded from a server. I
got webalizer to analyse by crafting a reasonably simple command-line.
Now I'm trying to use awstats and struggling. The docs say I should run
a configure script that will modify my apache conf! I don't want to do
that - the logs aren't from this machine. I haven't found any other docs
describing how to run it. The help from the script itself suggests I
need to prepare a config file, which appears to have 12 mandatory
parameters and a bunch of others that may or may not be relevant.

Is there an idiot's guide somewhere that explains the settings to use
awstats on some pre-existing log files?

Thanks, Dave