Applicable to:
- Plesk for Linux
Symptoms
Awstats *.txt data files (such as ones stored under /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/statistics/webstat) are kept longer than set within the retention policy settings of the server/service plan/subscription:
- Tools & Settings > Server Settings > Retain web and traffic statistics for;
- Service Plans > plan_name > Logs & Statistics > Retain web and traffic statistics for;
- Subscriptions > example.com > Customize > Logs & Statistics > Retain web and traffic statistics for.
Cause
Plesk bug #PPPM-10655, which will be fixed in future product updates.
Resolution
For GDPR compliant environment, use Webalizer with IP addresses anonymization.
As a workaround for AWStats on Linux server, use the following steps:
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Connect to the server via SSH.
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Create a script
/root/awstats_cleanup.shwith the following content:CONFIG_TEXT: #!/bin/bash
for i in $(ls -d /var/www/vhosts/system/*/statistics/webstat*/); do
find $i -ctime +$1 -exec rm -rf {} +;
done
echo "Web statistics files older than" $1 "day(s) are removed";
exit -
Create a task with the following content in Tools & Settings > Scheduled Tasks:
CONFIG_TEXT: /bin/bash /root/awstats_cleanup.sh 90
Where 90 is the number of days to retain traffic statistics files.
Comments
2 comments
Hello,
Until this is fixed, is there any chance you folks could release a script, that I could run, manually, to remove the very old files (and directories) in "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/statistics/webstat" and "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/statistics/webstat-ssl" for each subscription?
Customers are going over their quotas because these large files are going back many years. The subscription I'm looking at right now has these files going back a decade, to 2010.
Also, where do I find the setting for "TTL of the Domain/Server" in regards to AWStats?
Best Regards,
Bob
Hello Bob,
Thank you for the questions.
I've updated the article with additional details and the script which can be used as a w/a for AWStats.
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