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Corrupted Records

2010-10-18
2012-10-11
  • James Chase

    James Chase - 2010-10-18

    I am getting many corrupted records when doing an initial import. It appears
    many of the GET logs are not in the right format. I can see that the log
    entries do not contain all of the expected fields, but is there some way to
    use what is there for the relevant statistics? It should be able to create
    unique visitors and hits information from this. The fields are not out of
    order, just missing the later log information. About a 1/3 of the total log
    lines are being dropped due to this.

    Here is the corrupted line error:

    Corrupted record line 382 (record format does not match LogFormat parameter):
    58.166.74.57 - - "GET /skin/frontend/shambhala/modern/images/logo_email.gif
    HTTP/1.1" 200 2699

    Here is that line versus another GET log below it.

    58.166.74.57 - - "GET /skin/frontend/shambhala/modern/images/logo_email.gif
    HTTP/1.1" 200 2699
    120.146.67.60 - - "GET /skin/frontend/shambhala/modern/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
    200 395 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13)
    Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.5.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"

     
  • Jean-Luc

    Jean-Luc - 2010-10-18

    Hi,

    AWStats cannot process a log file that contains two different formats. You
    have to preprocess the file adding fictitious referrer and user-agent fields
    before you pass it to AWStats. The fictitious referrer could just be "-". The
    fictitious user agent is more complicated as it has to look like a regular
    browser like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13)
    Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.5.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)" in your example. Without
    real user-agent fields, AWStats will not be able to distinguish robot traffic
    from human traffic.

    Jean-Luc, InternetOfficer AWStats
    Support

     
  • James Chase

    James Chase - 2010-10-19

    Do you know why the log file could be being written in two different formats?
    Seems like an odd behavior!

     
  • Jean-Luc

    Jean-Luc - 2010-10-19

    Hard to say. Maybe you have several web sites/domains/subdomains (with
    different log formats) sharing the same log file ?

    Jean-Luc, InternetOfficer AWStats
    Support

     

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