How to Access Awstats Without cPanel

This post is intended to help those who are searching for a different way to view and access Awstats without having to log into cPanel.

This is how we do it.

1. First of all, visit http://awstats.sourceforge.net and download Awstats on your PC.
2. Create a folder and extract the contents to it.
3. With the help of File Manager (in cPanel) or FTP upload the contents of /cgi-bin and /icon folders into the root of domain. You can find the two contents in the “wwwroot” folder.
4. Open the /cgi-bin folder and change the permissions of the awredir.pl and awstats.pl files to 755.  We highly recommend to password protect the /cgi-bin folder in order to ensure access for authorized users only.
5. Now either edit this file /tmp/awstats/awstats.mydomain.com.conf. created by cPanel or download it to your PC, then edit (mydomain.com should be your domain)
6. Edit the file with your favorite text editor to alter ‘DirIcons’ line to DirIcons=”/icon/” and upload it back to the /cgi-bin folder.
7. That’s it ! You are now ready to access your website/domain statistics at http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mydomain.com (mydomain.com will be your own domain name).

Additionally, the Awstats can be viewed via a subdomain like statis.mydomain.com. To reroute traffic to http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mydomain.com, simply establish a subdomain and point it there.

That’s all folks !

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