This extension integrates the third party software AWStats into TYPO3 as backend module. The extension includes modules for administrators and users. Externally generated log files can be configured to be analyzed by AWStats like the TYPO3 generated ones.

From http://awstats.sourceforge.net:

“AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.”

This manual is not fully up to date. An updated overhauled extension will be released later. This is a bugfix release.Stay tuned.

Important

Security holes was recently found in AWStats versions from 5.0 to 6.4 when AWStats is used as a CGI: A remote user can execute arbitrary commands on your server using permissions of your web server user (in most cases user "nobody").

This extension includes an update to 6.5 version to fix this. Nevertheless my opinion is that in normal circumstances this extension is not affected by these security issues. For more information have a look in the section “security”.