How to allow cPanel customers the access to update awstats manually

Posted on: February 12, 2015

If you have a customer that is always asking you to update awstats more often then the scheduled updates, you can enable a button in their awstats that will allow them to update whenever they want to.

Please note however, that you should not allow this for everyone.  Reserve it for just a few, as if you have too many people doing this, it can drive up the server loads.

To do this, use the following steps.

  • SSH to the server
  • cd /home/USERNAME/tmp/awstats/
  • vi awstats.YOURDOMAIN.COM.conf
  • search for AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser and change the value from 0 to 1
  • save the file
  • run this command
    • /scripts/runweblogs USERNAME

Now when you login to the customers cPanel and click on their awstats, you’ll see a button that says update now at the very top of the screen.  Clicking this will process their stats right now.

 

 

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