Re: [webmin-l] webalizer replaced by awffull in Mandriva 2007

[Thomas L. <th...@th...>]

> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:27:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] webalizer replaced by awffull in Mandriva 2007
> To: Webmin users list <web...@li...>
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>
> On 1/Dec/2006 14:13 Thomas Leavitt wrote ..
>   
>> Webalizer is no longer being packaged for distribution by Mandriva's 
>> maintainers,
>> instead, it has been replaced by AWFFull:
>>
>> *"Webalizer* is a great weblog analysis program but hasn't been going
>> anywhere in recent years. AWFFull takes that base and starts to
>> fix the niggles and annoyances and hopefully become a useful
>> enhancement. As a base, weblizer has a stated goal of producing
>> web server analysis. AWFFull on the other hand, will gradually
>> focus more on the business intelligence contained within those
>> logs - and not specifically limited just to web server logs."
>>
>> The AWFFull web site is here...
>>
>> http://www.stedee.id.au/awffull
>>
>> Virtualmin GPL assumes that Webazlizer is available. That can be 
>> bypassed by disabling it. I know, also, that I can simply download and
>> install the static webalizer binaries (or install awstats and the 
>> awstats virtualmin module - which is what I'm doing)... but I thought I
>> should point this out, as other distribution managers may come to the 
>> same conclusion.
>>     
>
> Interesting, I didn't know what Webalizer had discontinued development ..
> Does AWFFull use the same configs as Webalizer? If so, it should be
> relatively easy to support.
>
> Until then, you could use AWstats, which is IMHO superior to Webalizer
> anyway. And fully supported by Virtualmin's plugin..
>
>  - Jamie
>   

The webalizer web site is still being maintained (home page was last 
updated on the 29th of Nov.), however, it appears that the code is going 
nowhere, as the last (minor) update was on April 16, 2002, and the last 
major one in 2000... which is an eon in Internet terms. According to the 
README file of of Webalizer Extended (a fork), they've cleaned up a 
number of bugs and security issues that were present in the last 
released version of Webalizer.

The Wikipedia page on it lists numerous forks, of which AWFFull is just 
one... don't know anything about how it is set up.

Webalizer Extended might be more backwards compatible, config file 
wise... scanning through the README, it seems clear that he's simply 
added to what's there, rather than making major architectural changes...

+ New configuration keywords to control all new Webalizer Xtended features.
+ Bug-fix for truncated user agent strings in the "User Agents" 
statistics of the original Webalizer 2.01-10 (user agent fields can now 
be grouped correctly).
+ Bug-fixes for serveral other problems with truncated strings (e.g. 
referrers) in the original Webalizer 2.01-10.
+ Security bug-fixes for several buffer overflows in the original 
Webalizer 2.01-10.

webalizer extended home page:

http://www.patrickfrei.ch/webalizer/

***

Mandriva is packaging awstats for distribution, so that's what I'm going 
with for the moment. Seems to me that Virtualmin's maintainers might 
need to consider replacing webalizer as the default with another web 
stats package... given that code for awstats already exists, and that 
the package is being actively maintained (and there's a webmin module 
listed on their project page at sourceforge.net, even), it would seem 
like a logical candidate.

Thomas