------------- AWStats -------------- Advanced Web Statistics

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AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics) is a powerful, full-featured web serverlogfile analyzer which shows you all your Web statistics including: visitors,pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, brokenlinks, robots and many more...

It works with IIS 5.0+, Apache and all major web, wap, proxy, streamingserver log files (and even ftp servers or mail logs) on all Operating Systems.

License: GNU GPL v3+ (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file), OSI Certified Open Source Software license.Version: 7.3Release date: January 2014Platforms: All (Linux, NT, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2...)Author: Laurent Destailleur AWStats official web site and latest version: http://www.awstats.org

I - Features and requirements of AWStats I - 1) Features, what AWStats can show you I - 2) Requirements for using AWStats I - 3) Files

II - Install, Setup and Use AWStatsIII - BenchmarkIV - About the author, license and support

I - FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS------------------------------------

I - 1) Features

A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:

* Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS* Visits duration and last visits* Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits* Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each day and hour)* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB)* Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list* Most viewed, entry and exit pages* File types* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate)* Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser)* OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS)* Robot visits* Worm attacks* Download and continuation detection* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site* HTTP errors (Page not found with last referer, etc,)* Screen size report* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks"* Ratio of Browsers that support: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio* Other personalized reports...

It supports the following features as well:* Can analyze all log formats* Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic filters capabilities for some charts)* Update of statistics can be made on demand from the web interface and not only from your scheduler* Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing syste

m)* Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages* Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, supports DNS cache files* Country detection from IP location or domain name* WhoIS links* A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers)* Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection* Several languages* No need of rare perl libraries* Dynamic reports as CGI output* Static reports in one or framed HTML or XHTML pages* Experimental PDF export* Look and colors can match your site design (CSS)* Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages* Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit)* Analysis database can be stored in XML format (for XSLT processing, ..

.)* A Webmin module* Free (GNU GPL) with sources (perl scripts)* Available on all platforms

I - 2) Requirements

To use AWStats CGI script, you need the following requirements:* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.* To run awstats, from command line, your operating system must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files).* Perl module "Encode" must be available. To run awstats as a CGI (for real-time statistics), your web server must also be able to run such scripts. If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at: http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Windows) http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (All OS)

I - 3) Files

The distribution of AWStats package includes the following files:README.TXT This filedocs/LICENSE GNU General Public Licencedocs/* AWStats documentation (setup/usage..

.)wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl THE MAIN AWSTATS PROGRAM (CLI/CGI)wwwroot/cgi-bin/awredir.pl A tool to track exit clickswwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.model.conf An model configuration filewwwroot/cgi-bin/lang Directory with languages fileswwwroot/cgi-bin/lib Directory with awstats reference inf

owwwroot/cgi-bin/plugins Directory with optional plugins

wwwroot/icon/browser Directory with browsers iconswwwroot/icon/clock Directory with clock iconswwwroot/icon/cpu Directory with cpu iconswwwroot/icon/flags Directory with country flag iconswwwroot/icon/os Directory with OS iconswwwroot/icon/other Directory with all others iconswwwroot/classes Java applet for graphapplet pluginwwwroot/css Samples of CSS fileswwwroot/js Javascript sources for "Misc" featur

etools/* Other provided toolstools/webmin/awstats-x.x.wbm A Webmin module for AWStatstools/xslt/awstats61.xsd AWStats XML database schema descript

ortools/xslt/* Demo to manipulate AWStats XML datab

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II - INSTALL, SETUP AND USE AWSTATS-----------------------------------

The documentation available for this release in HTML format isin the docs/ directory.

You can find a most up-to-date documentation at:http://www.awstats.org

III - BENCHMARK-----------------------------------

Tests and results are available in AWStats documentation, in docs/ directory.

IV - SOCIAL NETWORKS-----------------------------------

Follow AWStats project onFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/awstatsGoogle+: https://plus.google.com/+AWStatsOrgProjectTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/awstats_project

V - ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT-----------------------------------------Copyright (C) 2000-2014 - Laurent Destailleur - eldy@users.sourceforge.net

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see .