Question: Awstats showing error in the Linux Server while updating
Answer:
If a linux website throwing below error while updating awstats
AWStats did not find any valid log lines that match your LogFormat parameter, in the 50th first non commented lines read of your log.
Your log file /webspace/reseller/webadmin/domain.com/log/httpd/access_log must have a bad format or LogFormat parameter setup does not match this format.
Your AWStats LogFormat parameter is: 1
This means each line in your web server log file need to have "combined log format" like this:
111.22.33.44 - - [10/Jan/2001:02:14:14 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1234 "http://www.fromserver.com/from.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"
And this is an example of records AWStats found in your log file (the record number 50 in your log):
combined
Solution:
Open the apache file from vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or /etc/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
And enter the following line just above the HC panel virtual host setting (NameVirtualHost IPAddress:80 )
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
Restart the apache
If the problem persists then follow these steps
Stop Apache
Go to website location /webspace/reseller/webadmin/domain.com/log/httpd and rename the access_log file.
Start the apache
This shall resolve the issue.