[Slackbuilds-users] awstats (log analyzer) fails on Slackware 14.0

[Robby Workman]

Nishant got an update to me and it's been queued for both
master and 14.0 branches.  Thanks for the report!

-RW

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:40:48 +0100 (CET)
Kees Theunissen <C.J.Theunissen at differ.nl> wrote:

> To: Nishant Limbachia (package maintainer)
> CC: Slackbuilds.org users list
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been playing with "awstats" recently on Slackware64 14.0 and
> ran into a few problems. It looks like the package was created for
> Slackware 13.x. Is the package still maintained? If it isn't then I
> can make an update but currently I can only test on Slackware 14.0
> (32 and 64 bits). I have no Slackware-current system running yet.
> 
> Issues found:
> 
> - awstats depends on low-level/internal handling of regualar
> expressions in perl. This breaks in perl 5.14 and later. See also:
>   http://sourceforge.net/p/awstats/bugs/868/
>   This can be fixed by using the latest stable version of awstats
> (7.2), but that requires some work on the part of the Slackbuild
> script where the file and direcrory permissions are set.
> - Apache 2.4.x running on Slackware 14.0 with nearly out-of-the-box
>   config (only /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf included) fails on
>   the following lines from /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf:
>       Order deny,allow
>       Deny from all
>       Allow from localhost
>   I replaced that with "Require ip 127.0.0.1".
> - There is a bug in the "Keep same perms" part of "doinst.sh".
>   Instead of:
>     if [ -e etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new ]; then
>         cp -a etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming
>         cat etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new > \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming
>         mv etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new
>     fi
>   this should read:
>     if [ -e etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf ]; then
>         cp -a etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming
>         cat etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new > \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming
>         mv etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new.incoming \
>             etc/httpd/extra/httpd-awstats.conf.new
>     fi
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kees Theunissen.
> 
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