My Logs Page...? (sniff)

[Thunt]

My logs page hasn't updated in two days. Anyone else having this problem?

[Plothole]

Yup, I'm getting the same problem.

Ah well, its hardly a priority a this moment.

[Thunt]

Cool. As long as it's not just me having a problem on my end, I'm happy.

Thanks

[Shinyhugh]

Ayezuh same heeyah.

[Lilianewithanose]

Hmmm, well, I do realize I suppose that stats are less important than login, however it would be nice to know... are the stats just slow on updating, or is all the info lost from July 29 (the last date mine updated) until they're back on? And is someone working on getting them back up? Yes, I check my stats daily, mostly to check referers to see what impact different interviews, ads etc had. thanks

[Cope]

We can't really give a time for when the stats will return. They'll be back when they're back.

...and don't worry about losing information; the logs have failed to update before and I've never heard of any problems with lost statistics.

[Kris X]

One think you could do is acquire your own free webtracker here: http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/?reg

It works nicely and updates 24-7, just slap the given code on your indextemplate after you sign up.

[Lilianewithanose]

Thanks. I suppose that is a suggestion, but it hardly helps me compare my days and months with the previous in the webaliser graph bar and other stats. One reason I stayed with keenspace is because there was continuity, and these things are already included. I would really just like the webaliser stats back on track. I'll keep your suggestion in mind if I move my comics to my own domain.

[Thunt]

What's the longest you've seen the logs page go without updating?

[Lilianewithanose]

Well, this is the longest I have seen. Normally just a day or two. I admit I passed the 750,000 pages read mark and was looking forward to seeing it hit the 1,000,000 pages read, which just isn't going to happen if I lob on a brand new stats system at this stage in the game. I like to torture myself with how many print runs of my 96 page books I would have sold out if I had been selling rather than having it for free on keenspace.... I will keep my fingers crossed that somehow it is keeping stats even though there were all the server problems and that it will eventually update properly.

[-Fanny pack]

Ah, yes. Don't worry. Every time in the past that this has happened, the logs, once updated, acted as though nothing had ever been wrong. That is, they had all the info that they don't, currently, show.

[Gengar003]

I don't know for sure how webalizer works, but I'd bed a significant amount of money that it's database driven... that is, it stores stats in a database of some sort, and makes the pages based on those only when someone wants to look at them... That being the case, as long as it's still collecting data, once the pages update again there won't be any trouble.

Though with the KS->CG move, it's possible that something's wrong with the collection of the data...

I think the second is actually more likely, though, and that we'll just be missing 2 days from our logs... or three...

I honestly have no idea though, but I like posting. And talking. And attentio-

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[Kisai]

I don't know for sure how webalizer works, but I'd bed a significant amount of money that it's database driven... that is, it stores stats in a database of some sort, and makes the pages based on those only when someone wants to look at them... That being the case, as long as it's still collecting data, once the pages update again there won't be any trouble.

Though with the KS->CG move, it's possible that something's wrong with the collection of the data...

I think the second is actually more likely, though, and that we'll just be missing 2 days from our logs... or three...

I honestly have no idea though, but I like posting. And talking. And attentio-

[/ramble]

Short answer:
I spent the last 6 hours (it's now 4:22AM here) migrating a second time to mysql-driven apachelogs, unfortunately the first round killed itself in 3 days because all the sites (yes all 8000 or so) wound up in the same table. Needless to say, after it hit the 4GB file size mark (maximum filesize 32bit software can address w/o workarounds) it started to then write to the error log file which was 2GB by the time I caught up with it. So the data between those two sets is effectively destroyed.

This all started with switching the domain name over.

Switching the domain name over then started to cause log files to be named wrong.

Then because they were named wrong, the system stopped running them for stats.

This in turn resulted in changing the logging system the first time around, and then the second time around (second time around actually logs each site to it's own table, accomplishes pretty much the same as regular log files do, except that the data is created and deleted on the fly.)

So what you'll see is a gap between the 29th and today. If there were no hits, then it will still show the 29th.

The script I rigged for this action gets rid if some inaccuracies that were previously in existance from the flat files. However at the same time, it treats the *.keenspace.com and *.comicgenesis.com domains as separate, so if you switch your domain over, it should look like nothing happened if it's done around midnight, but if it's done around the middle of the day, the stats will disappear for that day. Unlike before where webalizer just stopped working.

I need to seconday fix the sites that have real names.

[Gengar003]

Did I fix your problem today? Then you owe me artwork. ^_^

Looks like we all owe some artwork...