Overview

By default, AWStats does not show the source country for visitors viewing a domain.

Requirements

Before you start, this article has the following dependencies:

• You must have SSH access set up for root or a sudo user.
  • Connecting via SSH to your server
  • How do I enable root access to my (dv)?
  • How do I disable SSH login for the root user?

Instructions

To enable this feature, the GeoIP plugin will need to be configured. Information about this plugin from /etc/awstats/awstats.conf:

 # Plugin: GeoIP
 # Perl modules required: Geo::IP or Geo::IP::PurePerl (from Maxmind)
 # Country chart is built from an Internet IP-Country database.
 # This plugin is useless for intranet only log files.
 # Note: You must choose between using this plugin (need Perl Geo::IP module
 # from Maxmind, database more up to date) or the GeoIPfree plugin (need
 # Perl Geo::IPfree module, database less up to date).
 # This plugin reduces AWStats speed of 8% ! 

Usually, geoip.pm plugin comes with AWStats package. However, the Perl modules necessary for the plugin to work (Geo::IP or Geo::IP::PurePerl) must be installed. You can get all the necessary installation instructions and downloadable plugin files (for example, "Geo::IP::PurePerl Module" library) from here:

• http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_contrib.html#geoip
• http://www.maxmind.com/app/perlrId=awstats

The plugin needs to be enabled in the main AWStats configuration files:

/etc/awstats/awstats.conf
/etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf

You will need to edit the files that were already configured by Plesk for every domain which can be found in /usr/local/psa/etc/awstats/*. The line that should be added into all these files looks like:

LoadPlugin="geoip GEOIP_STANDARD /pathto/GeoIP.dat"

Latest GeoIP.dat can be found at http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz.