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I have setup AWStats as per help.dotnetpanel and I can get to login screen but am presented with this when logging in...

System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Net.FileWebRequest' to type 'System.Net.HttpWebRequest'. at DotNetPanel.AWStats.Viewer.Default.GetWebDocument(String url)

Any ideas?

Ok I found out what ws happening here but I still have an issue... I get as far as logging into viewer but then it gives me a 404 message as follows:

Error while opening 'http://stats.opallogic.co.uk/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mattshome.co.uk': The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found

Can anyone help please?

Ok, I really need help with this now...I've checked elsewhere on the net and it mentioned the perl web service extensions being prohibited, which they were but after allowing them and restarting IIS I still have exactly the same issue; doh!

As I can see this URL http://stats.opallogic.co.uk/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mattshome.co.uk gives 404 error - the problem is in it. AWStats.Viewer works as "tunneler" only.

I guess you either didn't correctly install AWStats (e.g. Perl is not working) or didn't configured "stats" A record.

Why don't you use SmarterStats?

To be honest i'm quite happy with awstats, I may upgrade to SmarterStats at some point but it's roughly £150 for Pro as I'd need lots of stats on the same box.

I have checked my perl install and it seems fine, I can run perl awstats.pl -config=mattshome.co.uk -update which executes fine and parses the logs ok; that's when I run it from the same location as the web awstats.pl (in cgi-bin) by command prompt.  I've also got a record pointing to right place otherwise you wouldn't be able to resolve to stats.opallogic.co.uk ?