Viewing web stats without a login?

[plato]

I am a reseller and the main domain for the account is a site that I act as webmaster to a client. On the old server I was able to give the client the url of the stats page and he could look at them whenever he liked. Now the url takes him to the cpanel login screen. I can't give him access to this screen ( as it not only contains details of his site but others I work on and it would not be advisable for him to be playing around in there anyway). Is it possible for him to have access to the stats info without compromising the sites/resellers infrastructure.
Sending the usage page by email was also unsuccessful as it sent it in .txt format and not as .html . I'm hoping there is an easier solution than me downloading the page in txt format converting to html and emailing to him at the end of every month. Any ideas?

[cmyksteve]

Hi Plato,

Here's a link to an old forum thread- Give access to awstats
Maybe Ed will have an update on this.

I use StatCounter.com for some sites. They have free accounts with Admin and a couple levels of client access.

[plato]

Thanks I'll give it a go....

[edwurster]

Originally Posted by cmyksteve

Hi Plato,

Here's a link to an old forum thread- Give access to awstats
Maybe Ed will have an update on this.

I just checked, and it's still working. The files are updating, and still accumulating for webalizer. Also means you have a backup of the reports in another directory, so you have to make sure you leave disk space for this growth.

[edwurster]

Originally Posted by plato

I am a reseller and the main domain for the account is a site that I act as webmaster to a client. On the old server I was able to give the client the url of the stats page and he could look at them whenever he liked. Now the url takes him to the cpanel login screen. I can't give him access to this screen ( as it not only contains details of his site but others I work on and it would not be advisable for him to be playing around in there anyway). Is it possible for him to have access to the stats info without compromising the sites/resellers infrastructure.
Sending the usage page by email was also unsuccessful as it sent it in .txt format and not as .html . I'm hoping there is an easier solution than me downloading the page in txt format converting to html and emailing to him at the end of every month. Any ideas?

Awstats doesn't save the graphics and html as does webalizer. It saves a text file with the stats, and that is rendered in html when needed.

You can save the awstats page and associated graphics - i.e. in Firefox you'd save as web page complete, not text. This suggests that there could be a way to run awstats, and then save the rendered html. But that is not something I know how to do.

[plato]

I followed cmyksteve's prior forum thread but it didn't work?
1. Password protected the folder OK - but why do I have to complete the login details twice before it displays?
2. I presumed the /home/account/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh has the word account replaced with my domain (USERNAME)
3. Do I need to adjust the permissions for this script?
Any advice and I'll give it another go.

thanks

[edwurster]

Originally Posted by plato

I followed cmyksteve's prior forum thread but it didn't work?
1. Password protected the folder OK - but why do I have to complete the login details twice before it displays?
2. I presumed the /home/account/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh has the word account replaced with my domain (USERNAME)
3. Do I need to adjust the permissions for this script?
Any advice and I'll give it another go.

Perm's on cgi-bin folder and the .sh file are 755.

Here are the contents of the .sh file:

#!/bin/bash
cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png tmp/webalizer/webalizer.* public_html/webstats

Here is what is in the cron:

/home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/webstats.sh

I replaced the account login name with "username." That is your main account for the domain.

The time entries are 0 * * * *

The webstats folder is pass-protected through cpanel, and I used a different name/pass than the main account.

Hope that works.

[cmyksteve]

Originally Posted by plato

1. Password protected the folder OK - but why do I have to complete the login details twice before it displays?

I've added cPanel password protection to several of my sites Admin directories. On a couple of these I have to enter the username and password twice. I don't know why but some of the directories require that confirmation.

[plato]

Still not having any luck: Here is the exact lines in the update.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats

The permissions were 644 so I changed them to 755 (same as the cgi-bin). The next day the cron job hasn't worked and the permissions have reset themselves to 644? Try it again tonight. Any ideas?

[edwurster]

Originally Posted by plato

Still not having any luck: Here is the exact lines in the update.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats

The permissions were 644 so I changed them to 755 (same as the cgi-bin). The next day the cron job hasn't worked and the permissions have reset themselves to 644? Try it again tonight. Any ideas?

Permissions have to be 755 I think. How do you change the permissions? I always do this with my ftp - filezilla.

If you have shell, you can run the script from command line to test. And you can set permissions there too.

Make sure the .sh is a unix text file, not ms-dos or other.

[plato]

What is the command to run the script on shell access? Thanks

[plato]

I get this email response when trying to run the cron job:
/bin/sh: /home/corrobex/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh: /bin/bash
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Any clues?

[midwest]

To run a script from the command line you do:
./script.sh
so you would do
./cgi-bin/update.sh
or
cd cgi-bin
./update.sh

why wait over night to see if the cron job runs? Just change it so it runs every two minutes. Once its working change it back.

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