Has anybody been able to setup Urchin to coincide with Plesk on a Linux box? For some reason, I can't get to the directory where the log files are from the administration interface in Urchin. Anybody know a workaround or how to configure it?

Hey,

For starters you could try this link, which I haven't tried yet so can't really comment on but it has a lot of suggestions:

http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?thre...in&pagenumber=1

There is another one at http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?s=&t...ighlight=urchin which might help too.

Can you update us here if you try it and say how it goes? Are you running RHEpsa7?

Thanks, Matt

I just did this for a quick fix:

1) Created a user named "Urchin" group "psaserv" with nologin.

2) Put the following in a vhost.conf for the domain I wanted stats for:

3) Create a custom logfile:

4) Tell Plesk the vhost.conf is there:
5) CHMOD the statistics dir:
6) Go play with Urchin!

I'm still playin around trying to get it setup so that I don't have to chmod the statistics dir to 755 instead of the default 550. 755 scares me.

Hi,

Thanks for your notes, I guess this means manually configuring the domains that you want urchin for which can be good and bad...I know that with cpanel (which I dont use) is automated but this also means that if you dont want stats for a domain you cant not have stats because it will generate them again automatically (when it works) but this will allow selective stats with plesk which might be useful with the 100domain urchin license.

Can you update us if you find out anything else or work out how to not use 755?

Also will the webalizer stats built into the panel still work? and do you also have to manually create the urchin logins?

Sorry for all the q's!

Cheers, Matt

The webalizer stats & log rotations aren't affected because you're creating a new log file for urchin to use... (the "special_log" log) The stats dir set to 755 isn't really that big of a deal, but when I get a few minutes to play around I'll post a fix so it works with the default 550... I'm sure it's just a user/group issue. Oh... You don't have to chmod everything under the stats dir to 755, just the stats dir itself. More than likely just have to change the user that Urchin runs as, but I'm not that familiar with urchin so don't hold me to that.

I actually like the fact that I have to setup each account seperately. That way people have the default webalizer stats through Plesk, or for more detailed reports they have the option to upgrade to the Urchin stats.


<edit>To enable SSL for Urchin read this</edit>

Nice

Thx for the reply and info...I am going to check this out later too...I think the urchin as an option way of doing things fits my own likings better too rather than having ever domainsubdomain using up a domain on urchin whether you like it or not...

Anyway i'll see how it goes on my machine...keep us posted if you find out any other useful tips

Matt