Log File Format incorrect???

CentOS 5.5
HC 8 build 7

actual path files changed to reseller/webadmin/domain in post only

Log file setting for a site created via HC:
    ErrorLog /webspace/reseller/webadmin/domain/log/httpd/error_log
    CustomLog /webspace/reseller/webadmin/domain/log/httpd/access_log combined

Actual log file contents:
[root@oklinux httpd]# cat access_log
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
[root@oklinux httpd]# cat error_log
[Sat Jul 17 22:14:20 2010] [error] [client IPADDRESS] File does not exist: /webspace/reseller/webadmin/domain/www/html/favicon.ico

From Awstats when attempting to update: No qualified records found in log (31 corrupted, 0 dropped) 

hi

not so long ago, they changed the httpd.conf file completely incl. deleting any information about how the logformat should be and probably alot of other information you would normally like to have in httpd.conf

re-add something like this to your conf file:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn

Ok, now I have stuff showing up in the access_log file but I still don't have anything showing up in Awstats.

Every time I go to the /stats dir it tells me "Never updated (See 'Build/Update' on awstats_setup.html page" and when i do Update it gives a last updated time but the next time I go back to the dir it says that it needs to be updated again.

When I look in the stats directory I see several files named:

awstats072010.domain.com.tmp.22994
awstats072010.domain.com.tmp.23620

Open vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and make sure exactly same entry existed, if not then insert it.

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
restart the apache

If still stats not showing then open domain.com/log/httpd/access_log and remove all field 'combined '. Save and exit

this shall fix the problem as it worked with me.

A small correction in my previous post

Wrong> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined


Correct > LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" combined  


There is one additional double quote ' " ' just before combined word.

patrick

A small correction in my previous post

Wrong> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined


Correct > LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" combined  


There is one additional double quote ' " ' just before combined word.

The log format which HC use  (LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined  ) is absolutely right there is no issue with ' " '. If you change it then I am afraid stats update will not work.

@oakleeman you might be facing this problem due to permissions. Go to /domain.com/www/html directory and give chmod 707 stats. this shall resolve the issue.

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
 
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