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Add Update Button to AwStats

Summary

By default AWStats will update once a day. Following the instructions in this article will help you add a "Update" button to AWStats

Enabling Manual Updates

If you want to manually update your stats, follow these instructions:

  1. Locate the awstats folder within your account. (/home#/username/tmp/awstats/)
  2. You need to find and edit the custom.txt file.
  3. Add these two lines:
    • AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1
    • DNSLookup=1
  4. Save the changes
Now when you open AwStats in cPanel there will be a link next to the date that says "Update now". You may click this link to immediately parse the raw access logs and generate your statistics.
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