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I installed AWstats on my static site last night (1-22-11). My site has been up and running for about two weeks, but AWstats is only showing activity from 1-21-11 forward. Is there any way to get the site stats for the two previous weeks? Is AWstats "retroactive" at all in pulling stats, or does it just show stats from the time it was installed? |
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Yes. The basics are outlined in the official docs,
On our platform we take care of log management, logs are located in ~/logs/. Awstats is designed to fetch the data from the logs in ~/logs and build its own log file in ./data/log. This is accomplished by a script 'update_awstats.sh'. To do what you would want you should make a copy of this script, modify the paths to include the other logs, and than run it once. I've read in the official docs about that, but I just don't understand how to access my logs. I've created a static site using Dreamweaver on a Mac. I don't understand ~/logs. Where/how do I access and change them? I'm not too knowledgeable, sorry! Hi, Awstats will access your logs for you by running a perl script that reads them and generates your site's info. You can access the logs by logging into your server via SSH or FTP and navigating to your /home/username/ directory. (Which is also called $HOME or ~/) You can then navigate to the logs directory, then to the frontend directory, and finally to access_sitename.log to see what your log files actually have in them. You shouldn't need to modify them. So I found the logs, deleted the awstats012011.txt file as the "old log" documentation suggested. Then I updated my stats report and now it only shows stats for yesterday and today. I've read and re-read the docs, but it is very confusing to me. Can anyone give me a step-by-step of what to do to collect all the stats for my site so I can view them? Sorry to be so dense! Hi, I've run the commands to pull the data from the last 7 days into your stats, we rotate the logs after that so you won't be able to get the logs going back further than that. "...we rotate the logs after that so you won't be able to get the logs going back further than that." Forgive me for checking (maybe there's new info?) but is there absolutely no way to get stats figs for the site/server for the past few months? Maybe we can download from somewhere? If we could get access somehow that would get us out of a hole. thanks John No, sorry - we still do not keep more than 7 days web server logs, so there's no way to get data for the past few months.
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