Plesk .webstat log files are growing big

Symptoms

• The .webstat logs in /var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs directory are growing big (several GB)

• Manual statistics recalculation returns errors:

  # plesk sbin statistics --calculate-one --domain-name=example.com
  WARN: WARNING during statistics_collector execution: statistics_collector[32568]: Log rotation `/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf -s /usr/local/psa/var/logrotate.status' failed with code 1.
  Stdout:
  Stderr:error: error creating output file /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/access_ssl_log.processed.1: File exists

Cause

Incorrect AWstats paths are set in the /etc/psa/psa.conf file. For example:

# grep AWSTATS /etc/psa/psa.conf
AWSTATS_ETC_D /etc/awstats
AWSTATS_BIN_D /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin
AWSTATS_TOOLS_D /usr/share/awstats/tools
AWSTATS_DOC_D /var/www/html/awstats

Resolution

Set the correct paths in the configuration file as follows:

1. Connect to the server via ssh

2. Open /etc/psa/psa.conf file with a text editor

3. Reset all AWSTATS paths in this file to their default values:

• On Debian/Ubuntu:

  # grep AWSTATS /etc/psa/psa.conf
  AWSTATS_ETC_D /etc/awstats
  AWSTATS_BIN_D /var/www/cgi-bin/awstats
  AWSTATS_TOOLS_D /usr/share/awstats
  AWSTATS_DOC_D /var/www/html/awstats

• On RHEL/AlmaLinux/RockyLinux/CloudLinux:

  # grep AWSTATS /etc/psa/psa.conf
  AWSTATS_ETC_D /etc/awstats
  AWSTATS_BIN_D /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin
  AWSTATS_TOOLS_D /usr/share/awstats/tools
  AWSTATS_DOC_D /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot