I - 1) Features, what AWStats can show you

  I - 2) Requirements for using AWStats

  I - 3) Files

A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
* Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS
* Visits duration and last visits
* Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits
* Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each day and hour)
* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB)
* Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list
* Most viewed, entry and exit pages
* File types
* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate)
* Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser)
* OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS)
* Robot visits
* Worm attacks
* Download and continuation detection
* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site
* HTTP errors (Page not found with last referer, etc,)
* Screen size report
* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks"
* Ratio of Browsers that support: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader,
  Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader
* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio
* Other personalized reports...

It supports the following features as well:
* Can analyze all log formats
* Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic
  filters capabilities for some charts)
* Update of statistics can be made on demand from the web interface and
  not only from your scheduler
* Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing system)
* Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages
* Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, supports DNS cache files
* Country detection from IP location or domain name
* WhoIS links
* A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used
* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers)
* Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection
* Several languages
* No need of rare perl libraries
* Dynamic reports as CGI output
* Static reports in one or framed HTML or XHTML pages
* Experimental PDF export
* Look and colors can match your site design (CSS)
* Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages
* Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit)
* Analysis database can be stored in XML format (for XSLT processing, ...)
* A Webmin module
* Free (GNU GPL) with sources (perl scripts)
* Available on all platforms

To use AWStats CGI script, you need the following requirements:
* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.
* To run awstats, from command line, your operating system must be able
  to run perl scripts (.pl files).
* Perl module "Encode" must be available.
  
To run awstats as a CGI (for real-time
  statistics), your web server must also be able to run such scripts.
  If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at:
  http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Windows)
  http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (All OS)

The distribution of AWStats package includes the following files:
README.TXT                          This file
docs/LICENSE                        GNU General Public Licence
docs/*                              AWStats documentation (setup/usage...)
wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl          THE MAIN AWSTATS PROGRAM (CLI/CGI)
wwwroot/cgi-bin/awredir.pl          A tool to track exit clicks
wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.model.conf  An model configuration file
wwwroot/cgi-bin/lang                Directory with languages files
wwwroot/cgi-bin/lib                 Directory with awstats reference info
wwwroot/cgi-bin/plugins             Directory with optional plugins
wwwroot/icon/browser                Directory with browsers icons
wwwroot/icon/clock                  Directory with clock icons
wwwroot/icon/cpu                    Directory with cpu icons
wwwroot/icon/flags                  Directory with country flag icons
wwwroot/icon/os                     Directory with OS icons
wwwroot/icon/other                  Directory with all others icons
wwwroot/classes                     Java applet for graphapplet plugin
wwwroot/css                         Samples of CSS files
wwwroot/js                          Javascript sources for "Misc" feature
tools/*                             Other provided tools
tools/webmin/awstats-x.x.wbm        A Webmin module for AWStats
tools/xslt/awstats.xsd              AWStats XML database schema descriptor
tools/xslt/*                        Demo to manipulate AWStats XML database