巧克力工厂

The other day I saw chedong was using Awstats as his blog’s statistics tool, I was so impressed by the powerful functionality and detailed outputs. I thought if I could use this tool on my blog, it’s gonna be so cool. But thing is never that easy, after I grabbed Awstats from its official site, I found this thing is too complicate for me to install, I almost got sick after reading its attached documentation, tons of information threw themselves on me, I didn’t even know where to start. Awstats is based on PERL, I know nothing about PERL programming, installing Awstats requires knowledge on UNIX/Linux command line, I know nothing about Shell either, therefore I didn’t make it eventually. However blog.istef.info released an article which gave me a simple guideline installing Awstats, after several unsuccessful trials, I finally had it installed on my blog (check it out here). I have to say I benefited a lot through this process, I got acquainted to Shell command, I learned some UNIX/Linux infrastructure, it was a really nice experience.

I’m going to log my installing process in the following, if you are not interested, skip it.

The tutorial on blog.istef.info seems intuitive and applicable, I thought I can do that within minutes, however things often get complex once you start to get them implemented. Since I am a complete newbie to UNIX/Linux, I got totally confused about the commands that ofter refered by the tutorial. Thus, I dug into another article that posted on Dreamhost Wiki, which has a clearer structure, but unfortunately this additional article confused me more, simply put, these two articles have many differences, I don’t know how to do.

Then chedong mentioned a new article which helped me a lot, I finally had Awstats installed on my blog, everything seemed working fine, but soon I found the cron job didn’t work at all. The strange thing was I didn’t make any wrong, the syntax looks good. This bewildered me, I tried many ways but just couldn’t solve the problem. Today I happened to delete some spaces in the script of the cron job, it worked!

Until now, Awstats has been working fine on my blog.

懒得看英文的，看看这个中文的版本。