AWBot 1.0 Documentation

 


Frequently Asked Questions + Troubleshooting


ABOUT QUESTIONS:

SETUP or ERROR QUESTIONS:
Here, you can find the most common questions and answers users have to install/setup AWBot.

COMMON SUPPORT QUESTIONS:
Here, you can find the most common questions and answers users have when using AWBot.






FAQ-ABO100 : WHICH WEB SERVER OR OS ARE SUPPORTED ?
AWBot is just a particular Web Browser like IE or Netscape so it can test/works on all web servers. Because AWBot is in Perl, it can works on all Operating Systems.
Examples of used platforms (bold means 'tested by author', others were reported by AWBot users to work correctly) :
OS:
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Linux, Macintosh, Solaris, Aix, BeOS, ...
Web/Wap/Proxy servers
Apache, IIS 5.0, WebStar, WebLogic, Squid, Roxen, IPlanet, IceCast, Zope, ...
Perl interpreters:
ActivePerl 5.6, Perl for unix 5.0


FAQ-ABO200 : WHICH LANGUAGES ARE AVAILABLE ?
AWBot is only available in English.




FAQ-SET550 : HOW TO RUN AWBOT FREQUENTLY
PROBLEM: I want to run AWBot frequently to detect a response time decrease accross time. How can I do this ?
SOLUTION:

With Windows, you can use the internal task scheduler. The use of this tool is not an AWBot related problem, so please take a look at your Windows manual. Warning, if you use "awbot.pl -config=myfile.conf" in your scheduled task, you might experience problem of failing task. Try this instead
"C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /C C:\[AWBot_path]\awbot.pl -config=myfile.conf"
or
"C:\[perl_path]\perl.exe C:\[AWBot_path]\awbot.pl -config=myfile.conf"
A lot of other scheduler (sharewares/freewares) are very good.

With unix-like operating systems, you can use the "crontab".
This is examples of lines you can add in the cron file (see your unix reference manual for cron) :
To run update every day at 04:00, use :
0 4 * * * /opt/awbot/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awbot.pl -config=myfile.conf
To run update every hour, use :
0 * * * * /opt/awbot/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awbot.pl -config=myfile.conf