Submitted by hescominsoon on Tue, 07/11/2017 - 08:15 Pro Licensee
I enabled this feature inside of virtualmin and i get the following error: Failed to save enabled features : The plugin Analytics Tracking cannot be used : Apache's mod_perl version 2 must be installed
how do i fix this..and why wasn't the appropriate apache module added when this feature was added?
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Submitted by hescominsoon on Tue, 07/11/2017 - 08:19 Pro Licensee Comment #1
considering that mod_perl is not in the official repositories This needs to be removed from being offered in virtualmin unless you want to support EPEL and its modifications...or add it to the virtualmin repo.
Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 07/11/2017 - 10:12 Comment #2
Howdy -- yeah unfortunately CentOS 7 stopped offering mod_perl in their repo, but it's no problem to install this from EPEL.
You can do that with a command such as this:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/m/mod_perl-2.0.10-2.el7.x86_64.rpmWe are enabling EPEL in the Virtualmin 6 installer. But, we probably should deprecate this module, as it has shrinking value in a world where very few sites are static sites and most are backed by some sort of application (and usually have their own plugins for Google and other analytics). Also, mod_perl is a pretty heavy dependency for something that's so small.
I'll have to look into what we want to do about this module; whether it makes sense to keep shipping it (and maybe update it with an auto-config for mod_perl).
Submitted by hescominsoon on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 19:33 Pro Licensee Comment #4
about those google and other based analytics....the ad blockers also block most of the third party, offsite analytics. I find the analytics in virtualmin to be much more accurate: https://www.etc-md.com/archives/4579
So you may need to deprecate that module but leave awstats and webalizer...:)