---
name: "awstats"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "awstats"
version: "7.9-1+deb13u2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/awstats"
---

# awstats(1)

a free web server logfile analyzer to show you advanced web statistics

## NAME

awstats - a free web server logfile analyzer to show you advanced web statistics

## SYNOPSIS

**awstats -config *virtualhostname*** \[ **options** \]\

## DESCRIPTION

This runs awstats in command line to update statistics (**-update** option) of a web site, from the log file defined in AWStats config file, or build a HTML report (**-output** option). First, awstats tries to read awstats.*virtualhostname*.conf as the config file. If not found, awstats tries to read awstats.conf, and finally the full path passed to **-config** option.

Config files (awstats.virtualhostname.conf or awstats.conf) must be in /etc/awstats, /usr/local/etc/awstats or /etc.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-update**

  to update statistics (default)

- **-output**

  to output main HTML report (no update made except with **-update**)

- **-h**

  Display usage information.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

AWStats checks environment variable AWSTATS\_FORCE\_CONFIG; if defined, AWStats will use it as the "config" value, whatever is the value on command line.

## SEE ALSO

For more complete description of AWStats on the Debian system, look here: /usr/share/doc/awstats/

## AUTHOR

AWStats was written by Laurent Destailleur \<eldy@users.sourceforge.net\>.

This manual page was written by Sergey B Kirpichev \<skirpichev@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).