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Hi Tim,

After you have moved the existing May and June database files out of the directory, you need to do a few things:

1. comment out the value of the LogFile parameter in the AWStats config file and add:

LogFile="C:/path_to/temporary_file.log"

2. merge all the log files you need to process into this temporary_file.log. The merged file must begin with the oldest data and end with the newest.

3. run the AWStats update from the command line.

4. restore the former value of the LogFile parameter.

If the log files are very large, you can do several partial updates, starting with the oldest files. You will then have to repeat steps 2 and 3 several times until the latest data have been processed.

Jean-Luc

AWStats will not accept to process old records if there are newer data in its database files. You should temporarily rename all newer AWStats database files in order to make them invisible to AWStats. Deleting only the database of the month of the log file is not good enough.

Say that you want to process a log file dated September 16, 2007. You will have to rename (or move) the existing database files of September, October and November 2007 before you can run the update. You cannot just update one day. You have to completely redo the update for September. When that is done, you can restore the months of October and November as they were before you renamed them.

Jean-Luc