Hi,

One of our website's webalizer stats are not in order. They are displayed in this order:

May 2009
Apr 2009
Mar 2009
Feb 2009
Jan 2008
Dec 2007
Nov 2007
Oct 2007
Sep 2008
Aug 2008
Jul 2008
Jun 2008

Notice the 2007 stuff and Jan 2008 are out of place.

I manually edited the html file and put them in order, but the very next time webalizer ran, it went back to this order. I searched around and can't find anything about sort order. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Maybe is something wrong with system date?

@helpmhost: My WAG is that Webalizer sorts by month. If you review just the months (and ignore year for a moment), the values are properly sorted.

Also note that Webalizer by default only keeps a twelve month period of data. IMO, your data is incomplete/strange, since you have huge gaps in months.

I don't think it is the system date since this is the only site on this server whose stats are not in proper order.

These stats are updated incrementally since we rotate the logs daily. Is there a way to remove all the entries prior to a specific date? That way it will look proper and we can just say that we don't have proper stats for those prior dates.

Thanks.

First, take a backup of your webalizer's output directory (/var/www/usage in my case) and its "state" directory (/var/lib/webalizer in my case). Do not skip this step; if you break something, you're going to want an old baseline to be able to get back to.

Next, read through the webalizer(1) manpages. At a quick glance, a couple items stand out in speaking to your question:
and, a warning FWIW:
It seems like you could edit the history file to include only the totals you want. I'm not sure what webalizer would do with that -- he may delete old html/image files after seeing the updated history file, or you may have to do it yourself.

This will require some research and tinkering, so if you don't have the patience for that it is probably better to leave it alone. (Me, I'm a tinkerer.)