For the web report, under Pages-URL (Top 10), there are various urls. When I click on some of the urls, the page is displayed. However, for a lot of the urls, I get “page not found”. I noticed that the ones that I get “page not found” have + signs embedded in the url.
I checked the actual logs and the + is in the link; see entry below:
I even tried prepending it with the machine (host) name; and I still got page not found. Last, but not least, I tried substituting the + sign with an escape character; but it still didn't work.
Can anyone shed any light why I'm not able to see the content of these urls–the ones with + signs embedded?
This is a possible explanation (not sure this applies to you). If you have
URLWithQuery=0
in the AWStats config file, the URL's in the AWStats reports are truncated at the question mark.
Thus, if you have many hits on /my_page.php?page=25 and on /my_page.php?page=12, you will see /my_page.php in your "Pages-URL (Top 10)" even if there is no page at /my_page.php without query.