RE: [cobalt-users] Webalyser

["Andy Jacobs" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
> Sent: 16 December 2002 19:39
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Webalyser
>
>
> Andy Jacobs wrote:
>
> > > rm -f /home/sites/*/web/stats/.htaccess
> > > /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl
> > >
> > > Give that a try.
> >
> > Tried that but after running webalizer.pl I'm back to the same
> point with
> > the user/password being rejected.
>
> My recollection is that webalizer will had an .htaccess file if it
> doesn't find one; that's how the first one gets in there.
>
> So I'd recommend the following:
>
> rm -f /home/sites/*/web/stats/.htaccess
> touch /home/sites/*/web/stats/.htaccess
> /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl
>
> It's that "touch" line that creates the new empty .htaccess file which
> webalizer.pl won't overwrite.

Thanks for that Jeff.  That makes sense.  What doesn't make sense is why it
happened in the first place.  I'd done nothing to the server between it
working and not working.  I'm the only person who has anything like the
access required to screw something like this up so I don't know what it
could be.

Andy
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