Can awStats be given log files of other servers?

Question

From what I understand awStats would be installed on a particular server and the path would be set to your respective log file and would be processed.

What i would like to know is, can awStats be installed on a non server machine and given log files from a foreign server and analyzed?

Answer 1

of course. in fact that's how most people analyse their web logs - by copying them to non-live machine and running awstats there.

and in awstats.conf you can use Unix pipe in LogFile directive so for example:

LogFile="ssh [email protected] cat /var/log/apache2/httpd.log|"

should work.