First, I made sure that my access log was enabled. Then, I made a cgi script in /home/public called awstats.cgi which had the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
exec nfsn-awstats

(Don’t forget the line break on the second line.)

Next, I set the file’s permissions to 755, opened up a browser to http://www.whenbrainsfly.com/awstats.cgi, and did what it told me, which was to enter into the shell:

cp -r /usr/local/www/awstats/icons /home/htdocs/.nfsn-awicons

ln -s /usr/local/www/awstats/icons /home/htdocs/.nfsn-awicons
# 2009-12-15: Replaced with cp because images were still broken. Thanks Barb!

Finally, I refreshed and it was all set up!

I wanted to change the time zone used by AWStats, so I went to http://www.whenbrainsfly.com and then in the shell, I entered:

tail /home/logs/access_log

to see what time it says the last visit to my site was. It says I visited at 19:27 and it is now actually 14:27, so it’s 5 hours early (or is it late?).

In the shell, I changed the permissions of /home/private/ to 711 to make my files there executable. Then I created a file named .awstats.conf there and changed its permissions to 644.

Within .awstats.conf, I put

SiteDomain="www.whenbrainsfly.com"
HostAliases="whenbrainsfly.nfshost.com www.whenbrainsfly.com"

LoadPlugin="timezone -5"

The first two lines let me combine stats from both aliases of my site into one, and the last line handles the time zone shift.

Then, I had to rebuild the monthly reports (of which there was only one), so I went to /home/tmp/ deleted all files that matched awstatsMMYYYY.txt, and re-opened http://www.whenbrainsfly.com/awstats.cgi in my browser.

I went down to the Hours section http://www.whenbrainsfly.com/awstats.cgi?framename=mainright#hours and it said “Hours (GMT -5)” and the visit times so far looked correct. Hooray!

To double-check that my configuration settings were applied, I looked at /home/tmp/nfsn-awstats.conf and confirmed that what I had written in .awstats.conf was there.

So now you can find my site stats at http://www.whenbrainsfly.com/awstats.cgi.

Reference:
https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/wiki/HowTo/AWstats