AWAstats skiphosts never sticks

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by abercrombie, Jul 8, 2008.

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    trying to not include myself in my stats. so i go to:

    /tmp/awstats/awstats.domainhere.conf

    then i add my IP address to the line

    SkipHosts="00.000.00.0"

    then after a few days, i check and the entry is back to:

    SkipHosts=""

    i tried chaning it permissions to 777, editing it, then changing it back to 644 and check the file and my IP is there. then a few days later i go back and check and it's gone!! driving me crazy. i'm on hostgator.
     
    abercrombie, Jul 8, 2008 IP
  2. gostats

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    Seems that a crontab is eating/overwriting your file. You might want to run a third party tracker which you have more control over. (like GoStats) ;)
     
    gostats, Jul 8, 2008 IP
  3. Jean-Luc

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    This is a known problem with cPanel "controling" the AWStats config files. Several workarounds are explained here: AWStats Config File in cPanel.

    Jean-Luc
     
    Jean-Luc, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  4. abercrombie

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    thanks for the info guys. yea i'm also using Google Analytics which does allow for removing my own hits.
     
    abercrombie, Jul 9, 2008 IP