[sbjordal]

Let me preface this post by saying that I'm not a programmer and my experience with Perl is limited.

Anyways, I'm trying to get a Perl script going on our website, awstats.pl.
(awstats.sourceforge.net). In order to make it work for the first time, you have to run the script from command line and it'll analyze your httpd-logs.
The instructions wants me to type in the following command when you first set it up:
awstats.pl -config=virtualhostname -update
The terminal promptly returns : awstats.pl: Command not found.

I have tried to figure out why OSX won't let me run the perl script from the terminal. So, I guess I have two questions:

1, Can I run Perl scripts straight from the terminal?
2. What;s the command to invoke them?

Appreciate any help I can get on this.

[kcm3]

Originally posted by sbjordal:
Let me preface this post by saying that I'm not a programmer and my experience with Perl is limited.

Anyways, I'm trying to get a Perl script going on our website, awstats.pl.
(awstats.sourceforge.net). In order to make it work for the first time, you have to run the script from command line and it'll analyze your httpd-logs.
The instructions wants me to type in the following command when you first set it up:
awstats.pl -config=virtualhostname -update
The terminal promptly returns : awstats.pl: Command not found.

I have tried to figure out why OSX won't let me run the perl script from the terminal. So, I guess I have two questions:

1, Can I run Perl scripts straight from the terminal?
2. What;s the command to invoke them?

Appreciate any help I can get on this.

1) Make sure the directory you are in contains awstats.pl by typing "ls"
2) make awstats.pl executable by typing "chmod +x awstats.pl"
3) execute awstats.pl by typing "./awstats.pl -config=virtualhostname -update" - the ./ preceding your command tells the shell to look in the current directory for awstats.pl

Kyle

[neely]

Change to the directory where your awstats.pl script lives and then type

perl awstats.pl -config=virtualhostname -update