Awstats

[RandyWilson]

I have been trying to get awstats to ignore my IP address and I have worked on this now three days and still it's not staying fixed. I have read all about how I have to change the Skiphost "" and I have put my ip address in there. But when I check the next day it's back to saying SkipHost "" and what I put in didn't stay there, and yes I am using the code editor in the cPanel and I'm making sure I "Save Changes" each time.

 

So then I read where it only works if I change the DNSL look up thingy to 1 instead of zero so on the second day I did that along with putting my IP address in the skiphost spot again and saved it again.

 

The next day I come back and it's all been erased and put back to the way it was. So I read some more and this time I put my IP address in both the skiphost spot and also in the skip DNSL look up spot along with changing the first 0 to a 1 setting since it says it only works if the DNSL is set to 1 not the default 0

 

I come back the third day and again everything I put in and saved using the code editor is erased and everything is back to some kind of default setting that doesn't allow me to exclude myself I guess.

 

Can anyone here tell me what I need to do more than I have done to get the changes I make to STAY in effect for more than a few hours. I have 4 sites and after I fix all four of them I always close the browser and then reopen cPanel and go back to make sure my changes are still there and they are...until I come back the next day and they have all reverted back to what they were before I started my changes.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm new here just signed up

 

Randy Wilson

[TCH-Dick]

Hi Randy,

 

Unfortunately, cPanel recreates that file every day before it runs stats and it should not be directly edited. However, you can create a file named "awstats.conf.include" within the same directory and your changes will be kept. For this file you will only need to enter the settings you wish to change.

[RandyWilson]

Well I appreciate that little bit of information, that explains why I have been having the results that I have, so if I'm understanding you correctly all the places on the internet who are just telling you how to exclude yourself from Awstats are just full of so much BS - this whole idea of SkipHost and all the stuff it stays about changing the DNSL from 0 to 1 ect...it's all bogus? It seems strange that there were could lines like SkipHost or Skip DSNL look up etc if you can't really do that.

 

It would seem to me that few if any one would want every trip they make to check on their own websites to be recorded as traffic at all. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that it is set up the way you say it is, but I don't doubt your word because I know I have done the changes and they do not stay.

 

Again I don't know why it's even an option for me to get to that Awstats section at all much less lead me to believe that I can edit it and "Save Changes" when in fact I'm just wasting my time. I find it all very irritating the lack of common sense in whoever set up the cPanel and Awstats to operate that way. What a pain in the you know what!

 

AT least now I know I was doing everything right, it's the program itself that makes no sense and has bad design..or at least that is my humble opinion.

 

Thanks

Randy Wilson