Added .htacces -> hey? webstats went down?

[Harry Doldersum]

Hi everyone.

I was wondering about something...?

I noticed that early september 1st, my webalizer webstats went down. OK - it seems to happen sometimes, no big deal. I have already been to OPS and switched the stats off. I'll switch them back on tomorrow (24h later, right?).

The thing I was actually wondering about, is following:

In my time with Powweb, I have NEVER had problems with webstats (at least, none that I know of). And NOW the webstats went down in - what seems to be - a short time AFTER adding an .htaccess file to the htdocs directory, for customized "404" errormessages and such (don't laugh at 'em - they're drafts ;D ).

Could there be a connection between the addition of the .htaccess file and the breakdown of the stats? Or is that out of the question?

What do you think?

The contents of the .htaccess file is:

ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.html

Earlier, when the error occured, I also had error 301 in there. But I noticed in the FAQ that 403, 404 and 500 were the only errors that mattered (?), so I removed 301...

Looking forward to your replies?

Cheers,
Harry D.

[sandy]

Could there be a connection between the addition of the .htaccess file and the breakdown of the stats? Or is that out of the question?

There is no causal relationship to the above and webstats not functioning.

Sandy

[Harry Doldersum]

Thanks for clearing that up, Sandy! ;)

[polygon]

Almost everyone's webstats went down early 9/1/02 whether or not anything was changed, added, or not....

[MarkHutch]

Webstats on all our sites went down on Sept 1, too. I imagine Powweb will fix this problem when they get the time. They have been really busy the past few days with much greater problems like servers being down.