I am trying to set my WinXP box up so that it processes our server's log files locally. After 2 days of looking at docs, conf files, and help files, I am coming to one brickwall. I can't get awstats.pl to dynamically pull up my stats in the browser. I can only process and build the static files from the command line. I used the AWStats installer and it successfully added the correct lines to httpd.conf, but I still get the 500 error message saying it couldn't create the child process. Also, I used XAMPP to setup Apache locally and have installed ActivePerl. Can anyone help me out?
The only advice i can offer you is that it's going to be 100x easier to install and run awstats.pl as CGI than as mod_perl. It'll require a lot less work. There's a fair amount of material on the topic, google search brought up some good material. Here's one of the better first ones i saw. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2005/10/17/install-setup-and-configure-cgi-and-perl-in-windows-xp/
Well, for the moment I've given up. I successfully got Webalizer and another stats program working with my log files. I'd love to have AWStats too since that's what I use with my other sites, but it just seems too tough when I'm rotating logs daily.