now, the issue is when i run awstats.pl update command, it gives me an error that u have some logformat error, add %bytesd in ur log format.
there are no bytes captured in the log files, still, when i add %bytesd at the end (which looks senseless) and obviously gives me 0 dropped records, 'N' corrupted records, 0 new qualified records.
to my satisfaction i have matched the fields from website's properties, log entries, awstats documentation. but i think i need an expert eye.