GoAccess for DreamHost

An easy to setup packaging of GoAccess for use on DreamHost web-hosting services (shared servers and VPS).

Features:

• Automatically lists active web sites.
• Generate GoAccess reports based on current logs.
• Generate Reports for single or multiple sites.
• Entirely written in Bash CGI!

Notes:

• Reports use the avaiable raw logs, which DH default to 3 days. Sites can be configured to keep up to 30 days of raw logs in the Site Statistics Panel.
• Reports are generated on the fly, so expect ~35 seconds of processing time per million requests.

Installation

GoAccess-DH can be installed anywhere on a web site. It comes with a pre-built binary of GoAccess (see below for building from scratch).

• Quick Install

  Log in to a site's shell user (e.g. ssh myuser@myhost.dreamhost.com) and clone GoAccess-DH into the site's web directory. For example:

  git clone https://github.com/chuckhoupt/goaccess-dh.git ~/example.com/goaccess-dh

  Now visit example.com/goaccess-dh/ to see stats for all the sites hosted under that shell user.

Further Configuration

• Secure Reports

  Setup password protection for the goaccess-dh directory via DH's Htaccess Panel.

• Build from Source

  If you'd prefer to build your own binary, run Make to configure and compile GoAccess:

  make -C ~/example.com/goaccess-dh/bin

Related Projects

These projects have a similar intent to GoAccess-DH, but require root access:

• gopanel - Multi-site Web Analytics Menu for goaccess
• Using GoAccess with PHP