OT: awstats on yum repository

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Wed Sep 10 06:39:47 IST 2008


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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 9-9-2008 2:23 PM Hugo van der Kooij spake the following:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I added some statistics specifically to track MailScanner downloads. For
>> that I added the following lines to my awstats config:
>>
> Just for fun I took a look and I get a 403 error.

That is the referer spam protection. I need to whitelist people
explicitly to see the awstats pages. Otherwise I get loads of dummy
requests just so that spammers can get their website listed in the
referer section of the report.

I have not yet found a way to limit this to only the referer section.

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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