What is the reason, that I have only unknow ip, and only one visitor in my awstats report?

Question

I installed awstats and it looks in principle ok.

The only thing is, that I still have only one visitor with all the hits and only an "unknown ip" as addresses.

All other thinks (OS, browser etc.) look ok

Any Idea where to search?

Answer 1

I was lazy with my apache2 configuration.

I put all vmhost log data into /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

It is ok for me.

But then apache2 has a different log format.

A look at apache2.conf tells - look at vhost_combined and the %v:%p at the start :

LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

And this does not fit to awstats

LogFormat=1 #that is:
#LogFormat = "%host %other %logname %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %refererquot %uaquot"

Solutions:

1. Make your log files less lazy and put them in a separate file in apache2 config (recommended)

or

2. Change the logfile format in apache2 to: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined ie. remove the "%v:%p"

or

3. Change the logfile parameter in your awstats to: LogFormat = "%other %host %other %logname %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %refererquot %uaquot" ie. add an %other at the beginning of the line, to get rid of domain:port