Overview
Webstats of certain domains are being deleted the beginning of every week. How do I prevent this?
This happens when the Incremental directive in Webalizer is not enabled.
Requirements
Before you start, this article has the following dependencies:
- You must have SSH access set up for root or a sudo user.
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Instructions
In order to prevent the statistics from being removed, you must enable the Incremental directive in the /etc/webalizer.conf file.
Filename: /etc/webalizer.conf
# Incremental processing allows multiple partial log files to be used
# instead of one huge one. Useful for large sites that have to rotate
# their log files more than once a month. The Webalizer will save its
# internal state before exiting, and restore it the next time run, in
# order to continue processing where it left off. This mode also causes
# The Webalizer to scan for and ignore duplicate records (records already
# processed by a previous run). See the README file for additional
# information. The value may be 'yes' or 'no', with a default of 'no'.
# The file 'webalizer.current' is used to store the current state data,
# and is located in the output directory of the program (unless changed
# with the IncrementalName option below). Please read at least the section
# on Incremental processing in the README file before you enable this option.
Incremental yes
# IncrementalName allows you to specify the filename for saving the
# incremental data in. It is similar to the HistoryName option where the
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