After a day and a half of attempting to install awstats, a free log analysis tool in aolserver I came across a forum post that seemed promising, however the link mentioned by the poster was dead. Awstats must be installed in the cgi-bin, a somewhat antiquated installation method that truthfully I must admit I have never before attempted. However, a short skip and a jump through archive.org later and I had a cached version of the quoted weblink. This website while not altogether different from others I had found on google, gave me the push I needed to reorganize the code in my nsd.tcl file corresponding to cgi-bin setup. Here is the solution I found to enabling cgi-bin scripts usage in aolserver.
Some
assumptions, if you are hoping to get the same results I did
- You are running at least version 4.5.1 of Aolserver
- Running at least postgres 9.3.1
- Have perl installed
ns_section
"ns/server/${server}/module/nscgi"
ns_param Map "GET /cgi-bin ${serverroot}/cgi-bin"
ns_param Map "POST /cgi-bin ${serverroot}/cgi-bin"
ns_param Interps CGIinterps
ns_section
"ns/interps/CGIinterps"
ns_param .pl "/usr/bin/perl"
You will also
want to ensure that the following line is uncommented in your nsd.tcl file:
ns_param
nscgi
${bindir}/nscgi.so
It is very
important that you:
- capitalize the word "Map" in the "ns_param Map" section
- that the cgi-bin mapping whatever you decide to call it, not have a trailing '/'.
If you still
have problems getting it to work, try changing the path from a dynamic path
like
"${serverroot}/cgi-bin" to a static path.
"${serverroot}/cgi-bin" to a static path.
This solved my problems, and awstats has been working great, feel free to shoot me a comment if you feel this posting is incomplete.
