Installing the Geo::IP plug-in for AWStats when ActivePerl distribution is 5.10.x

There are lots of tutorials how to install the Geo::IP::PurePerl plug-in for AWStats, but they specify ppm packages only for ActivePerl versions 5.6 and 5.8. I had to dig google a bit to find the repositories for ActivePerl 5.10. I found the Geo-IP-PurePerl packages here.

To install the x86 Perl Package:

C:\>ppm install http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1000/B/BO/BORISZ/Geo-IP-PurePerl-1.24.ppmx

Add the following line to awstats.yourwebsite.conf file:

LoadPlugin="geoip GEOIP_STANDARD C:\Program Files\GeoIP\GeoIP.dat"

After this, create a directory C:\Program Files\GeoIP and extract here the latest country database file, GeoIP.dat, from here. You have to grant the IUSR_ account read access to this file, otherwise you'll get the error message:

Error: Plugin init for plugin 'geoip' failed with return code: Error opening c:\Program Files\GeoIP\GeoIP.dat at C:/Perl/site/lib/Geo/IP/PurePerl.pm line 183. (A module required by plugin might be missing).
Setup ('C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\AWStats\cgi-bin/awstats.yourwebsite.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.

Making AWStats work with default IIS logging.

By default, IIS logs the following:

#Fields: date time s-sitename s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status

This is nice, but bytes sent is not logged by default by IIS, although AWStats needs this and will give you the error message:

Error: Your personalized LogFormat does not include all fields required by AWStats (Add %bytesd in your LogFormat string).

Fortunately, sc-substatus is always 0 and it's logged, so at least you can see statistics for page hits, operating systems, browsers... except traffic. The LogFormat for the awstats.YourSite.conf file should be the following:

LogFormat = %time2  %other %other %method %url %query %other %logname %host %ua %code %bytesd %other

NOTE: you have to import log data in chronological order before you start scheduling awstats updates, so it's a good idea to make a batch file to do this for you:

awstats.pl -config=DefaultWebSite -update -logfile=c:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1930027649\ex091124.log
awstats.pl -config=DefaultWebSite -update -logfile=c:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1930027649\ex091125.log
awstats.pl -config=DefaultWebSite -update -logfile=c:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1930027649\ex091126.log