Thursday, January 17, 2008

How to Enable “Update Now” Button in Cpanel Awstats

How to Enable “Update Now” Button in Cpanel Awstats

Tired of bugging your host to update Cpanel awstats? You can generate stats, update it by your own by clicking the ‘update now’ link at the top of the main page in the awstats. You can place this “update now” by yourself .
Find out how to change the configuration file for Awstats to re-enable the ‘update now’ button.

Follow these steps:
1. login into cPanel
1a. Open File Manager
2. navigate to /home/username/tmp/awstats/
3. edit the .conf file (e.g. awstats.yourdomain.com.conf)
4. look for this line: AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser, set the value to 1 (AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1)
5. Save the .conf file. When you refresh your statistics page. you will get ‘update now’ link at the top of the page.

This applies for any subdomain as well

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