Plesk .webstat log files are growing big

Symptoms

• The .webstat logs are growing big (several GB)
• Awstats has been installed using Plesk installer
• Daily Cron task has been executed on a daily basis
• No duplicate Cron tasks on the server
• Plesk might have been upgraded to Obsidian recently (Optional).
• Manual start of calculation shows that some files are missing:

  # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/web_statistic_executor –calculate-domain example.com
  —–[ example.com
  Webstat: awstats
  Executing awstats…
  Processing the log /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/access_log.webstat
  /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -configdir=/usr/local/psa/etc/awstats -config=example.com-http -LogFile=/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/access_log.webstat

  Execution of /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -configdir=/usr/local/psa/etc/awstats -config=example.com-http -LogFile=/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/acce
  ss_log.webstat failed with return code 1.
  Stdout is
  forkExecvPipes: execv() failed: No such file or directory

  System error 2: No such file or directory
  Stderr is
  forkExecvPipes: execv() failed: No such file or directory

  The log will not be truncated because of errors above: /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/access_log.webstat

  Stat_ttl for the domain is 3.

  sh: /usr/share/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl: No such file or directory
  popen_exec: command failed code: 127 , error: none

  System error 2: No such file or directory
  popen_exec: command failed code: 127 , error: none

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

  # cat /etc/psa/psa.conf | grep AWSTATS
  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

Cause

Wrong path configuration in Awstats config files

Resolution

Set the correct paths in configuration file as follows:

1. Connect to the server via ssh
2. Open /etc/psa/psa.conf file with a text editor
3. Replace AWSTATS_BIN_D and AWSTATS_TOOLS_D so that it looks like follows:

   # cat /etc/psa/psa.conf|grep AWSTATS
   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