Re: [cobalt-developers] Stats

["Nico Meijer" <nico.meijer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> I installed a software on RAQ4 that gives statistics about a website, it
> creates a directory called stats inside that site folder, that can be
> accessed via the browser by going to www.sitename.com/stats

Did you install webalizer?

> but I don't want
> anybody to go there with no password so what can I do?

Drop a .htaccess file in that directory, which requires a login + password.
This is well documented in the users-archive.

Or, you could install the webalizer-auth*.pkg, which creates a .htaccess for
you.

> especially that I
> tried to put some files in that directory but it didn't let me although I
> have the permission of the administrator!!!! the owner of the stats
> directory is "httpd"

Yup, that's your apache user.

> So how can I change the mode so I can put some files in that directory and
> how can I stop anyone from seeing the stats via the browser?

If it's the webalizer version Cobalt distributes via
http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com, then you'd have to edit webalizer.pl, which is
somewhere in /etc/cron.[take-your-pick]. Don't recall from memory and mine's
not there anymore. It's the script that does the "chown -R httpd.[sitex]"
part.

I followed this advice, btw, and have not yet lost any statistics:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-July/016435.html

Furthermore, I edited the script to have logresolve do reverse lookups on
the IP's in all the web.log files. This way, I get to see hostnames without
having to turn on HostnameLookups in Apache.

If anyone's interested, I can post it here.

Good luck.. Nico