Configuring Awstats for Bing Support

Up until Awstats 6.95 came out, Bing was not recognized as a search engine and hits coming from it are listed under “Links from an external page”.

In order to configure Awstats to recognize Bing.com, you must edit a file named search_engines.pm

On cPanel web servers, this file is located in /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/lib

On Linux servers, you can search for this file by using this command :

find / -name ’search_engines.pm’ -print

Open this file using your favorite non-formatting text editor (I personnally use vi or joe). Modify each of the sections as listed below :

@SearchEnginesSearchIDOrder_list1

Find :

‘msn\.’,

Insert this line right after :

‘bing\.com’,

%SearchEnginesHashID

Find :

‘msn\.’, ‘msn’

Insert this line right after :

‘bing\.com’, ‘bing’

%SearchEnginesKnownUrl

Find :

‘msn’, ‘q=’

Insert this line right after :

‘bing’, ‘q=’

%SearchEnginesHashLib

Find :

‘msn’,’MSN Search‘,

Insert this line right after :

‘bing’,’Bing‘,

Save the configuration file when you’re done editing.

Upon the next Awstats update, you will see Bing among the listed search engines.