How to update AWStats on cPanel server

AWStats is a free powerful graphical tool which generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from the command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

Awstats not working /updating – CPanel

There might be several reasons for your AWStats to stop working but let’s find here how you can restore the functionality on your VPS/Dedicated box with a few easy steps.

The first thing you need to check is awstats.pl permissions and make sure that apache has permission to execute the AWStats, so please check this :

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/awstats.pl, permissions should be 755

Then to update awstats and webalizer run the script

/scripts/runweblogs  cPanel_Account_USR

If that doesn’t work you can try the fixwebalizer script

/scripts/fixwebalizer

If that doesn’t update stats, then check domlogs of the domain and see if it is up to date. You can use the following script to run statistics

/scripts/runstatsonce

If none of the above fixes the issue and the awstats page for the domain is still showing the old date for last update, run the following command

/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/awstats.pl -config=/home/user_name/tmp/awstats/awstats.yourdomain.com.conf -LogFile=/usr/local/apache/domlogs/yourdomain.com -update

Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name and replace user_name with your cPanel username.