How to manualy recreate AWstats logs on Windows

Sometimes it happens that your scheduled task on Windows missed some logs. I’ve recently had a such problem because I’ve deleted a Windows user that created AWstats task. What did I do to repair this awkward situation?

Firstly you cannot simply regenerate daily log from the past. In this case AWstats will simply skip old records. Follow this steps:

  1. Go to AWstats data directory (AWstats\cgi-bin\data).
  2. Use Windows search ability to show only problematic files (if file name is awstats102013.yoursite.txt simply type yoursite in a searchbox).
  3. Mark all found files and move them to the temporary location.
  4. Now run Windows cmd.
  5. Go to AWstats tools dir. In my case:
    cd C:\awstats-7.0\tools
  6. Now create a merged log for a problematic website:
    :: where xx is unique IIS webiste id 
    logresolvemerge.pl L:\LOG_DIR\W3SVCxx\* > L:\LOG_DIR\W3SVCxx\merged.log
  7. Go to awstats.pl location:
    w:
    cd w:\wwwroot\AWstats\cgi-bin\
  8. Parse merged file:
    awstats.pl -config=yoursite -LogFile=L:\LOG_DIR\W3SVCxx\merged.log -update
  9. Place files from steps 2-3 back to their location. Don’t overwrite new files! Simply skip old ones.
  10. You should be able to see complete stats for your website.

TIP: How to dermine your webiste unique id? Simply go to IIS manager and click advanced settings in a right pane after selecting website.



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