I use AWStats to analyse logs on several web sites that I manage. After a recent upgrade to Debian 7.0 \u201cWheezy\u201d I was puzzled to find that my web stats were no longer being updated.<\/p>\n
I verified that the Cron job which runs the update script was running. I verified that if I ran the same command from the console, it ran correctly. I verified this even using sudo to run with the same permissions as Apache. I also noted that the update button on the stats pages worked correctly. An odd problem.<\/p>\n
This is how it rested for a while, and I manually updated the stats. It was annoying though, so I took a closer look.<\/p>\n
First, I amended one of the Cron jobs so that it output to a file. Reading the file after the next failed update, I could see the error message:<\/p>\n
\nError: LogFile parameter is not defined in config\/domain file
Setup file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nI knew the config file was fine, but checked anyway, and of course the LogFile was specified OK.<\/p>\n
It was a clue though. Eventually I came across this bug report<\/a> by Simone Capra:<\/p>\n
\nHi all, i’ve found a problem:
When run from another perl program, it finds a config file that doesn’t exist!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nI applied the suggested fix in awstats.pl, changing:<\/p>\n
\nif (open( CONFIG, "$SiteConfig" ) ) {<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
to<\/p>\n
\nif ($SiteConfig=~ \/^[\\\\\/]\/ && open( CONFIG, "$SiteConfig" ) ) {<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Presto, everything is running OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I use AWStats to analyse logs on several web sites that I manage. After a recent upgrade to Debian 7.0 \u201cWheezy\u201d I was puzzled to find that my web stats were no longer being updated. I verified that the Cron job which runs the update script was running. I verified that if I ran the … Continue reading Fixing lack of output in AWstats after Debian Linux upgrade<\/span>