I  am trying to set up Awstats but when I run the awstats.pl command, it is giving me the error:

AwStats did not find any valid log lines that match your LogFormat parameter, in the 50th first non commented lines read of your log.

Your log file C:/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/activity.log must have a bad format or LogFormat parameter setup does not match this format
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Your AWStats LogFormat parameter is:
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This means each line in your web server log file need to have “combined log format” like this:
111.22.33.44 – - [10/Jan/2001:02:14:14 +0200] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 1234 “http://www.fromserver.com/from.htm” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)”
And this is an example of records AWStats found in your log file (the record number 50 in your log):
[invalid characters removed by forum admin]

Setup ('./awstats.AppSrv01.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

I am unable to figure out how to solve this problem even after googling around for a solution in that direction. Please point me in the right direction and I will be grateful.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah… it seems like my log file is not in the right format…. I can read it using Notepad, but it is not in a very attractive format.  The name of my log file is activity.log and it is under the folder: 'C:\\WebSphere\\AppServer\\profiles\\AppSrv01\\logs'. The contents of this file get filled by Websphere when I run some tests.

I deleted the file contents ( of activity.log) and now when I run the awstats.pl command( after re-running the tests), it gives me the output:

Update for config “./awstats.AppSrv01.conf”
With data in log file “C:/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/activity.log” …
Phase 1 : First bypass old records, searching new record…
Searching new records from beginning of log file…
Jumped lines in file: 0
Parsed lines in file: 2
 Found 0 dropped records,
 Found 2 corrupted records,
 Found 0 old records,
 Found 0 new qualified records.

Which is some improvement, but which reinforces the fact that my log file is not in the correct format since it found 2 corrupted records. Any way around this, so that it can read the records as new records instead of corrupted… ( would I have to change the format of the log file to match the log format definition, and if so is there a way to do that)?

This is going to be very unattractive…. here we go:

[activity log file content removed]

Awesome… that was exactly that I needed to do. Now I am able to get it to read the log files ( the access log file for the HTTP server) and generate the statistics by  running from the command window. But I am unable to get the statistics page to display from the web browser. Here are the things that I did:

1.  I set: AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1 in my awstats.mysite.conf file

2.  I set: SaveDatabaseFilesWithPermissionsForEveryone=1

I tried changing the permission of the C:\\awstats-6.5\\wwwroot directory too but not sure it works. 

Is there something that I am missing?

And this is the url that I am trying to hit from my browser:

http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=AppSrv01

Here's the message:

Not Found

The requested URL /awstats/awstats.pl was not found on this server.

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IBM_HTTP_Server Server at localhost Port 80

Not sure that I quite have the knowledge or expertise yet to write a sample perl script.

As I mentioned earlier, I was able to build the report in a static HTML page from the command window using the command:

perl awstats.pl -config=mysite -output -staticlinks > awstats.mysite.html

I wrote the sample perl script and it runs well from the command window again and gives the output: “<H1>Hello World</H1>\\n”

but running it from the url browser again gives the same error: ( I hope this is how it is to be run):

The url I use is: http://localhost/awstats/sample.pl?config=AppSrv01

The error I get is:

Not Found

The requested URL /awstats/sample.pl was not found on this server.

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IBM_HTTP_Server Server at localhost Port 80

And I put the above mentioned sample script in the C:\\awstats-6.5\\wwwroot\\cgi-bin directory.

Even though the sample file is in the C:\\awstats-6.5\\wwwroot\\cgi-bin directory,

putting the URL http://localhost/cgi-bin/sample.pl  still gives the following error:

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/sample.pl was not found on this server.

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IBM_HTTP_Server Server at localhost Port 80

I was wondering if there is a special configuration required for the web server to be properly configured to run perl script.