How To Install webalizer on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install webalizer on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install webalizer.
Install webalizer on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install webalizer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install webalizer
Install webalizer on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the webalizer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove webalizer
webalizer Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.