awstats web site statistics for glassfish

awstats is a open source web server log analyzer. Glassfish is an open source java-based web-server. Click here to check out the statistics on my two glassfish domain servers: domain1 domain2. Of course you will restrict access when you deploy this.

To get the awstats package to work with glassfish:

1. Download and untar awstats (to /usr/local/awstats)
2. Follow the instructions for installing awstats and run the configuration utility.
   Remember to create the /etc/awstats/ and /var/lib/awstats/ directories and set write permission.
   Edit the config file (/etc/awstats/yourconfigfilename) and change the LogFile property to:
   LogFile="sed -e 's/"\([0-9\.]*\)"/\1 - -/g' -e 's/"\([^"]*-0800\)"/[\1]/g' /usr/local/java/web/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs/access/server_access_log.%YYYY-0-%MM-0-%DD-0.txt |"
   where "/usr/local/java/web/glassfish" is the location of your glassfish server. Also remember to change the time zone offset (mine is -0800) to your timezome offset.
   Change the DirIcons property to:
   DirIcons="icon"
   You will probably want to change your SiteDomain and HostAliases properties to match your domain name.
   I got this info from Glen Smith's blog, Thanks!
3. Open your glassfish admin page (http://www.yourserver.com:4848), go to configuration -> http service and click the Access Logging enabled box.
   Click on the Access Log Tab and enter:
   %client.name% %datetime% %request% %status% %response.length% %header.referer% %header.user-agent%
   in the Format text box.
   This makes your log format similar to the apache log format
4. Go you your awstats/wwwroot directory and create a sub-directory WEB-INF
   Create a web.xml file in this directory that contains:
   
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
   <servlet>
   <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
   <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>
   <init-param>
   <param-name>debug</param-name>
   <param-value>0</param-value>
   </init-param>
   <init-param>
   <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
   <param-value>cgi-bin</param-value>
   </init-param>
   <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>
   <servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/awstats.pl</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
   </web-app>
   Afterwards, cd to the wwwroot/cgi-bin directory type chmod a-w *.pl just to be careful.
5. Now, install this as a web server in the glassfish admin screen (http://www.yourserver.com:4848)
   Applications -> Web Applications -> Deploy
   And deploy the web server directory: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot. Make sure your context root is awstats.
   
   
   
6. Try to invoke the servlet as it's described in the awstats documentation:
   http://www.yourdomain.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=yourconfigfilename
   You should see the awstat config data. Cool!