
If it looks good, pop back into CPanel and check AWStats. Do another ls -l to make sure the ownership’s accurate.So if your account name was “ fred” you’d use: Replace ACCOUNT with the name of the account. If that’s the case for you, you may want to change the ownership with the following command: In the case above, root root means that they’re owned by root which you probably don’t want (you want them owned by the account they’re in).In my case the new files looked like this: This will list the files and tell you who the owner is. It is best when used to understand visitor numbers from both humans and robots and the amount of bandwidth being used. This applies to servers based on control panels like cPanel, Plesk, etc.
#CPANEL AWSTATS UPDATE#
And, AWStats doesn’t update automatically if there are issues with the permissions of these log files, configuration errors, etc. As we have already said, the statistics shown in AWStats come from different log files. AWStats provides visitor information as well as site searches and downloads. His AWStats failed to update automatically. It supports a wide selection of features for working with files and folders, configuring DNS records, managing domains and sub-domains, managing email, working with databases, and much more. CONF files if you accidently included them with the. AWStats is a tool within cPanel meant to troubleshoot bandwidth issues and detect if someone is hot-linking images or document files. The cPanel control panel is used for managing your server settings. Reason is that the new server started collecting stats and I didn’t want to overwrite any of the old ones. if it asks you to overwrite any of the files, I personally said NO.

#CPANEL AWSTATS ZIP#
upload the stats files in new directory you just created through cpanel’s file manager (if there are many, you may want to zip them before uploading, and then extract).make a new folder of some sort in the public_html directory (“tempfilez” for example).Problem is, the CPanel File Manager may not always let you put stuff in the new /home/ACCOUNT/tmp/awstats folder. Once you’ve downloaded the files to your computer (and renamed them if necessary), you’ve got to upload them to the new server. Tiny sidenote: you *may* be able to get away with not renaming them to match – in that case they’d probably just “show up” as other websites in the AWStats panel – not a biggy if that’s the case, but I haven’t tested without renaming.Īnyway, to the process. If you want to see what the new names are, browse over to your new site – as long as awstats has run (by default it only runs once every 24 hours), you should see the format of the new filenames. This is important to note, because if you used a different account name on your new server, you’re going to have to RENAME these files – particularly the somename and if necessary, anothernam e parts. or in the case of an addon domain, awst. The files are named something similar to awstats 01 2007. The logs were easy enough to find in the original backup – they were in: Rather than doing the typical account backup, I had transferred the files and databases individually. Something little I wanted to do – I moved from a shared host to a VPS.
