| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
|---|---|
| OS type and version | Rocky 8.7 |
| Webmin version | 2.001 |
| Virtualmin version | 7.3 Pro |
| Related packages | Awstats |
I’ve encountered this issue a number of times when migrating sites; but for some reason, it doesn’t happen all the time. I think, but am not certain, that the problem only manifests if the site being migrated was accessed by both HTTP and HTTPS at some points in its history.
In other words, the problem will happen when migrating an old site that was served without SSL in its early days, and then switched to forced SSL; but it will not happen if the site either never had SSL, or always had forced SSL.
The problem is that cPanel stores the Awstats files for HTTP and HTTPS separately; and Virtualmin seems to only import the HTTP files during the migration. So if a site switched to forced SSL five years ago, the past five years of Awstats data will be empty after the site is migrated.
Post-migration, the cPanel stats for non-SSL access can be found in
/home/{user}/tmp/awstats
The cPanel stats for SSL access can be found in
/home/{user}/tmp/awstats/ssl
The method I’ve been using to work around this has been to copy all the
awstatsxxxxxx.example.tld.txt
files from
/home/{user}/tmp/awstats/ssl
to
/home/{user}/awstats,
then manually run the cron job to update Awstats. Voila. There are the historical stats.
I won’t say that this is the “right” way to do it. It’s just what I’ve been doing when it happens, and it seems to work.
Richard