AWSTATS Question

[dgridley]

Before I moved my sites to a new server, I saw that my girlfights.info had already had 600 uniques for the month of November. Now, after moving the site to a new server and essentially having 3-4 days of no recorded vists, I just checked AWSTATS in my CPanel and it only shows 550 uniques!

Wazz up with the discrepancies? Shouldn't the backup have recorded those uniques and transferred them to the new server stats? Same deal with my other sites by the way... I'm missing like 200 uniques for campaignnews.info, for example.

 

[dnb8]

hmmm maybe you had uploaded to server older backup then this where You checked 600 visits ?

 

[HHDomains]

I don't think a backup carries over the stats Dave.
The stats software draws on information from a log file resident on the server.

 

[slider]

They probably only backed up your public_html directory. Do you still have access to the old servers? Go up one level from the directory with all your site files and you should see a directory with your log files in it.

 

[dgridley]

I figured that was the case.. dang!

Thanks!

I don't think a backup carries over the stats Dave.
The stats software draws on information from a log file resident on the server.

 

[PolurNET]

Logs are usually located in the /tmp folder, but automatically removed after a few days by cPanel

 

[{insert name here}]

Your stats that are shown in your cpanel are ran off a server cron once a day, from a DOM log that is stored in a root only access area, once these are parsed, they are transfered to your vhost space as polurnet said, in the /tmp/stats-program-name

So when doing a cpanel backup, the only stats that are backed up are the ones currently in that folder, so if you backed it up, moved it, then updated the stats in awstats with the manual link, or they ran the next day, it would be off from what was already backed up.

 

[dgridley]

Yeah, between the sites being offline while they were moved three times over several days and waiting for the dns to resolve, I'm sure it must be off quite a bit anyway.

Your stats that are shown in your cpanel are ran off a server cron once a day, from a DOM log that is stored in a root only access area, once these are parsed, they are transfered to your vhost space as polurnet said, in the /tmp/stats-program-name

So when doing a cpanel backup, the only stats that are backed up are the ones currently in that folder, so if you backed it up, moved it, then updated the stats in awstats with the manual link, or they ran the next day, it would be off from what was already backed up.