Making stats pages world-viewable?

[platypus]

I am paranoid about security and have locked down ports like 2083 and 2087 to my IP address only. However, there is one feature I'd like to be more universally visible -- stats. I have a client who would like simple access to their domain's stats and I was wondering how I can adjust cPanel and/or create some aliases so that Webalizer and Urchin stats are visible outside of the https://x.x.x.x:2083/frontend/x/index.html framework. In fact, I don't care if the entire world can see the stats without a password, but I would rather do that then trouble my client with logging in through the cPanel interface. Plus, if I can keep my security policy simple and secure, I'll be happier. I followed some of Urchin's instructions for apparently doing the same thing, but ran into problems and was wondering if anyone had in-depth information on the process. Even without that, having globally visible Webalizer would be nice as well. Any suggestions? I'm assuming I'd need a combination of setting up an Apache alias for a domain and making changes to file ownerships or something. I'm running Redhat Enterprise 3. Thanks!!!

[casey]

I don't know about urchin, but as far as webalizer goes, it's explained in the FAQ:
http://faq.cpanel.net/show.cgi?qa=105099180403223

[platypus]

Thanks! That worked perfectly. I was trying the Apache alias route, but this is clearly simpler and a better solution! Thanks!

Still wondering about doing the same thing with Urchin, but that is lower priority now. Has anyone here "opened" up Urchin to the public? If so, how?

[keyDet79]

A bump for this one, I would like to make Urchin available to public as well, thanks!

[pavemen]

In Urchin, login as the admin, then goto Configuration > Settings > Access Settings and enable Remote Report Access. Then you can acces stats from

http://www.domain.com:9999/report.cg...le=profilename

[keyDet79]

In Urchin, login as the admin, then goto Configuration > Settings > Access Settings and enable Remote Report Access. Then you can acces stats from

http://www.domain.com:9999/report.cg...le=profilename

Thanks but the stats are empty: http://www.vanessa.com:9999/report.c...le=vanessa.com

Any idea why?

[pavemen]

if hte profiles are the ones automatically created by urchin/cpanel then you need to delet the log and domain profiles and create them from scratch. not sure why, but thatisthe only way ihave ever been able to get urchin to process logs. and you only have to do it one time for each domain/log file.

[sneader]

Anyone know how to do this world-viewable stats stuff for AWSTATS ?

- Scott

[Thaeke.com]

<?php
//dv at josheli.com

$user = 'username';//your cpanel username
$pass = 'password';//your cpanel password
$domain = 'yourdomain.com';//do not include 'http://' or 'www.'

/*
NO NEED TO TOUCH ANYTHING BELOW HERE
*/

//retrieves the file, either .pl or .png
function getFile($fileQuery){
  global $user, $pass, $domain;
  return file_get_contents("http://$user:$pass@$domain:2082/".$fileQuery);
}

//it's a .png file...
if(strpos($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],'.png')!==false) {
  $fileQuery = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
//probably first time to access page...
elseif(empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])){
  $fileQuery = "awstats.pl?config=$domain";
}
//otherwise, all other accesses
else {
  $fileQuery = 'awstats.pl?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}

//now get the file
$file = getFile($fileQuery);

//check again to see if it was a .png file
//if it's not, replace the links
if(strpos($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],'.png')===false) {
  $file = str_replace('awstats.pl', basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), $file);
  $file = str_replace('="/images','="'.basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).'?images',$file);
}
//if it is a png, output appropriate header
else {
  header("Content-type: image/png");
}

//output the file
echo $file;
?>

[sneader]

Thaeke, you are the MAN! That works great -- thank you SO MUCH for sharing!!

- Scott

[liquidcherry]

hi Theake,

i tried your code but it shows me a blank page?
my cpanel is @ port 2083,(i made the changes in the codesection) maybe this is the reason?
Any help is greatly appreciated

Liquidcherry

[gemby]

I have disabled url_fopen on all servers, so it has to be done with curl...i'll try to "port" it to curl :-))

[Thaeke.com]

The code is not mine, I found it on a forum (could even be this one).

[jdstallings]

This worked like a DREAM! THanks!

[mikbyrne]

This is great code, worked a treat for me too. We've been wanting to do this for a year now, I've even had a crack at it myself but didn't think of using recursive requests to the same page.

Thanks to whoever wrote it originally.