How To Install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8. webalizer is A flexible Web server log file analysis program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8.

What is webalizer

The Webalizer is a Web server log analysis program. It is designed to scan Web server log files in various formats and produce usage statistics in HTML format for viewing through a browser. It produces professional looking graphs which make analyzing when and where your Web traffic is coming from easy.

We can use yum or dnf to install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install webalizer.

Install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install webalizer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install webalizer

Install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install webalizer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install webalizer

How To Uninstall webalizer on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the webalizer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove webalizer

webalizer Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/cron.daily/00webalizer
/etc/httpd/conf.d/webalizer.conf
/etc/sysconfig/webalizer
/etc/webalizer.conf
/usr/bin/wcmgr
/usr/bin/webalizer
/usr/bin/webazolver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/9240ea29b409c15620555f380e54c944d91cd1
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/ec64031872167daab460de72dee50ad742e60e
/usr/share/doc/webalizer
/usr/share/doc/webalizer/README
/usr/share/man/man1/wcmgr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/webalizer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/webazolver.1.gz
/var/lib/webalizer
/var/www/usage
/var/www/usage/msfree.png
/var/www/usage/webalizer.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install webalizer on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.