Awstats Bot Filtering

[Lucas]

I get a lot of robots visiting my site that AWStats doesn't recognize. I'd like to make it so that these don't come up as normal traffic.

 

According the AWStats documentation, there is a file someplace called robots.pm that contains the list of bots that it will consider bots. I've gathered that this is in a subdirectory off of the dir containing awstats.pl. The thing is, I can't actually find awstats.pl. Is this a shared thing on each server, so I don't have access to it, or do I just have no clue where to look?

 

I have also found that I can accomplish what looks to the same thing using a parameter in the .conf file for the site, which I can find, however it says not to do it this way. Of course I see no reason not to do it this way anyways (famous last words...)

 

Anyone know anything more about this?

[TCH-Sales]

I could be wrong, but I don't belive you can do this per account on the server, and I belive if it was edited, it would have to be edited for all acccounts. (Since this is set up by Cpanel and not a single installation)

[Lucas]

I was affraid that may be the case. I'll just have to block them by agent type. I imagine all the difference is that in this case I won't see them at all, whereas if they were listed in robots.pm they would show up under the robots portion of the stats, which isn't really a huge deal(they're mostly a bunch of minor blog indexing bots). Thanks.