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

[Steve C. <cam...@cn...>]

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From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
To: "Webmin users list" <web...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] webalizer replaced by awffull in Mandriva 2007


> 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 instead, it has been replaced by AWFFull: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
>
There is another company developing a fork of the original webalizer. Stone 
Steps has actively taken a great deal of effort to resolve a lot of the 
problems I started seeing with the original Webalizer. Very helpful folks, 
they are.

http://www.stonesteps.ca/

They use the original configuration options and have added a lot more. I run 
RHEL 3 and need to use a script to run it due to the library requirements, 
but they supply all of the libraries and it's quite easy. They have all of 
the GEOIP stuff also.

Steve Campbell