Date: 03/03/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web, yahoo

yesterday, after the Y!SB version of Movable Type refused to properly work with a non-their-version of bigPAPI (which i needed for a stat-tracking plugin to work) i was advised to install bbclone instead.

this, too, doesn't work because yahoo doesn't let people upload .htaccess .htlock .anythingwithadotinfrontofit files.

doing some more research, i found awstats, which doesn't require hidden files, uses the log files generated by Y!SB already (so that's what they were there for, i says), and doesn't require me to tear my hair out.

being oblivious to perl and consoles and so on also made me have to find this thread (http://coderforums.com/showthread.php?t=17248) which explains how to configure everything without knowing how to code.

so uploaded all the stuff, ran the program, everything worked great.

and by that i mean everything worked great on day one (sorta like the movable type plugin).

now, when i try to update awstats and get the information for today, i get this message:

Error: Couldn't open server log file "/logs/access.log" : Permission denied

Setup ('/cgi-bin/awstats.www.websitewithheld.com.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

and i'm confused as hell because i didn't change anything! same stuff as yesterday! at most, the log file may have started anew (I think it saves the old log file and then generates a new one per day), but still what's the deal here?

i really really hate Y!SB more and more every day and i'm not web-savvy enough to know what the hell it keeps doing to screw me over.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1074932.html