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            <h1>Setup GoAccess Web Log Analyzer on Linux</h1>
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          <h2>What is GoAccess?</h2>

<p><em>GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.</em> - <a href="https://goaccess.io/" target="_blank">https://goaccess.io/</a></p>

<h2>Installing GoAccess</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux host</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software respositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install prerequesities<br />
	sudo apt install gnupg2 -y<br />
	# add goaccess gpg key<br />
	wget -O - https://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -<br />
	# add goaccess apt repository<br />
	echo &quot;deb http://deb.goaccess.io/ $(lsb_release -cs) main&quot; | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goaccess.list<br />
	# update software repositories again<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install goaccess<br />
	sudo apt install goaccess -y<br />
	# install apache2<br />
	sudo apt install apache2 -y<br />
	# enable the real-time dashboard<br />
	sudo goaccess /var/log/apache2/access.log --log-format=COMBINED -a -o /var/www/html/monitor.html --real-time-html</div>
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<h2>View GoAccess Web Dashboard</h2>

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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/monitor.html</li>
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