how to get old logfiles into awstats

[Herby]

I want awstats to process my

.processed.x logfiles

But changing the "LogFile" Parameter in awstats conf file doesn't have any effect. It only reads the actual access_log file.

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-one --domain-name=domainname

Any hints ?

 

[MrKris]

We had this problem..

It seems that AWStats disregards data from before the date/time of the last log entry that it processed.

We deleted the AWStats-generated data file for the month:
/var/www/vhosts/<DOMAIN>/statistics/webstat/awstats<MMYYYY>.<DOMAIN>-http.txt

e.g. for the domain "demo.com" and month of Feb 2007:
/var/www/vhosts/demo.com/statistics/webstat/awstats022007.demo.com-http.txt

This will reset the stats for the month.. which obviously means you need to have the log data for that month to regenerate stats from scratch.

Alternatively, you *could* (I haven't tried this) try changing lines in that data file.. like the 'LastLine' entry:

# LastLine    = Date of last record processed - Last record line number in last log - Last record offset in last log - Last record signature value

LastLine 20070223045457 21632 4960894 0

 

[MrKris]

Ahhh, it does seem that the "LogFile" parameter in the awstats conf file is ignored :|

I've had to mess around with this again in the end I just merged the log files into one big access_log file and ran stats

cat access_log >> access_log.processed; cp access_log.processed access_log; rm access_log.processed; touch access_log.processed;
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-one --domain-name=demo.com

If you move (mv instead of cp followed by rm) access_log.processed to access_log then Apache gets upset & stops logging.. until you restart httpd

This is what happens I try to be all Unixy n clever.. when really I'm Windows user