May 24th, 2010
Configuring AwStats to show the country of site visitors
Configuring AwStats to show the country of site visitors.
By default AwStats does not show the source country for visitors viewing a domain. To enable this feature, the GeoIP plugin should be configured. Here is the information about this plugin from /etc/awstats/awstats.conf:
# Perl modules required: Geo::IP or Geo::IP::PurePerl (from Maxmind)
# Country chart is built from an Internet IP-Country database.
# This plugin is useless for intranet only log files.
# Note: You must choose between using this plugin (need Perl Geo::IP module
# from Maxmind, database more up to date) or the GeoIPfree plugin (need
# Perl Geo::IPfree module, database less up to date).
# This plugin reduces AWStats speed of 8% !
Usually, geoip.pm plugin comes with AwStats package, but the Perl modules necessary for the plugin to work (Geo::IP or Geo::IP::PurePerl) should be installed. You can get all the necessary installation instructions and downloadable plugin files (for example, “Geo::IP::PurePerl Module” library) from here:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_contrib.html#geoip
http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats
The plugin needs to be enabled in the main AwStats configuration files:
/etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf
And the files that were already configured by Plesk for every domain which can be found in /usr/local/psa/etc/awstats/*. The line that should be added into all these files looks like:
Latest GeoIP.dat can be found at http://www.maxmind.com/
