One of my users reported having problems updating his page using Frontpage. He recieved an error about the /stats directory. He also said he is no longer able to update the site, he can only do a full upload.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

What can I do?

there have been a number of posts on this subject in the past. do a search and you will find the answer. there is a fix listed on one of the posts to correct the problem.

Just type this in your telnet ,



cd /home/sites/siteX/web

chown -R nobody stats



Hope this works for you. :)

I'm still getting that error, any other ideas??

Offhand I don't know the answer, but the subject has been covered a zillion times in the Cobalt mailing list archives. If you haven't checked those out yet, you should: http://list.cobalt.com/cgi-bin/htsearch

Go to http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/

and download the latest webalizer, it fixes the frontpage/stats problems

After installing the pkg, there's a script, /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl, that you need to have a look at. There was an update that caused the web server to run as "nobody," rather than "httpd," but the webalizer.pl script didn't know about that. All you need to do is edit the script (vi or pico -w) and make a change.

Look for the text below in that script:
# Now change ownership of stats files for siteadmin
$messages .= `chown -R httpd:$name $thepath`;

and change "httpd" to "nobody" so that it looks like this:

# Now change ownership of stats files for siteadmin
$messages .= `chown -R nobody:$name $thepath`;

Save the script, and that will take care of it.

Since i had the same problem on webalizer, i did this, now will i get problems with files it created earlier ?

It was running fine until now, except for the FP error