Re: Is there a port of AWStats on OpenVMS

jf.pieronne_at_laposte.net
Date: 06/30/04

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    Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr wrote:

    > In article <craigberry-73C599.08393825062004@news-east.dca.giganews.com>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com.spamfooler> writes:
    >
    >>In article <cbh836$8o2$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>,
    >>jf.pieronne@laposte.net wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Did someone has ever try to port/run AWStat on OpenVMS?
    >>>http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
    >>>AWStats is a free PERL tool that generates advanced web, ftp or mail server
    >>>statistics, graphically.
    >>>
    >>>I swill be interesting to use it for my httpd server (WASD) and my ftp server.
    >>
    >>I've never done it myself, but see pp. 226-30 of Alan Winston's VMS web
    >>server book. It looks like he had to wrap the Perl invocations in DCL
    >>and run the DCL as a CGI script, but that it did work.
    >
    >
    > Thanks for the plug!
    >
    > To be precise, though, I didn't actually get AWSTATS running as a CGI. I
    > looked at what youu'd have to do to do that (as you describe), but I didn't
    > actually get it done. (I did get it running from the command line in the
    > maintenance update mode, but it took _forever_ to update the files. There may
    > be some tweaking for faster RMS-file access or something, but I didn't do it.)
    > The figure shows AWSTATS running on a Unix system running Apache (as the text
    > reference says). I stand by the last paragraph on p.229: "You'll have to do
    > quite a bit of work to AWStats running properly as a CGI on your VMS system.
    > It does nicer graph's than ANALOG, but I'm not sure you'll find it worth it, at
    > least until the AWStats package runs works right out of the box."
    >
    > -- Alan

    Thanks,

    My thought was just to try to get it running from the command line.
    After reading this part of your book, As I am not a PERL expert, I will wait
    until someone success to install and run it near out of the box.

    Jean-François

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