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In AWStats under: "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)" it has generated a list of pages that had linked to my page. I see pages like: Bing, YouTube, HotFrog, etc.. However, there are many internal links within the pages. Towards the bottom it is reporting as followed:

http://72.249.150.9/distributors.php           5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/contact/                   5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/catalog/                   4     1.9 %
http://72.249.150.9/flex-point-hockey-grip.php 5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/sticky-grip-foam.php       5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/video.php                 10     4.8 %
http://72.249.150.9/dealers/                   5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/feedback/                  5     2.4 %
http://72.249.150.9/products.php              10     4.8 %
http://72.249.150.9/ergo-hockey-grip.php       5     2.4 %

Note: Static IP was set in place because of the SSL requirement.

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  • Could it be that my client is referencing the whole URL to his pages in his navigation? i.e: website.com/products.html vs products.html
    – Austin
    May 19, 2010 at 13:37

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Because your site is also being visited by it's IP-address (without your domainname). AWStats doesn't know this is the same website unless you configure the HostAliases configuration directive. Add this to your AWStats configuration:

HostAliases="72.249.150.9"

Another solution would be redirecting visitors who visit your website by it's IP-address to your domainname (I would recommend this anyway). You can do this with mod_write and a .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !.*?your.domain$ [NC]
ReWriteRule /(.*)$ http://www.your.domain/$1 [R=301,L]
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  • I went to my awstats.conf file and found the following HostAliases="www.oggiegrip.com oggiegrip.com" Would it be bad to overwrite this with what you suggested? Or should I just go the .HTACCESS route?
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 13:40
  • Add the IP address to the existing HostAliases separated by a space. And check the .htaccess, people are visiting your site by it's IP address, you don't want that ;).
    – PowerSp00n
    May 10, 2010 at 13:41
  • When adding to the HostAliases file do I need to recompile a .pl file?
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 13:51
  • Also, I see the rewrite Condition you advised but I tried that and it failed to work. Instead I'm using: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oggiegrip.com ReWriteRule (.*) oggiegrip.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 14:04
  • You don't need to recompile AWStats after altering the configuration, just let AWStats analyze your logfiles. Not sure if AWStats will remove the existing IP Address from the list of sites linking to you.
    – PowerSp00n
    May 10, 2010 at 14:05
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[johnathan@VM:~] $ host 72.249.150.9
Host 9.150.249.72.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

You need to setup reverse DNS for that IP so that your web server can map the IP back to a domain name. Your ISP can normally help you with this, alternatively, if you're running the server from your home IP look into something like the Free services offered by dyndns.org.

[johnathan@VM:~] $ host 109.xxx.xxx.131
131.26.169.109.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer starscream.xxxxxxxxx.com.
[johnathan@VM:~] $ host starscream.xxxxxxxxx.com
starscream.xxxxxxxxx.com has address 109.xxx.xxx.131

That's the sort of return you should get ... just for reference.

Hope this helps :)

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  • I'm not running this from home. Is it only possible to create a reverse DNS by contacting the ISP?
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 14:13
  • Also, what are you running to use that host command? I tried SSH'ing to a *nix box but was unable to use that.
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 14:30
  • apparently the Linux box I was on didn't have that command so I ssh'd to another server.
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 14:36
  • Referring sites has nothing to do with reverse DNS. @Austin: your .htaccess doesn't work yet. You'll have to forward 72.249.150.9 to your domain.
    – PowerSp00n
    May 10, 2010 at 15:02
  • @PowerSp00n, seems to be working fine on my end. When I try oggiegrip.com it immediately adds the www. prefix.
    – Austin
    May 10, 2010 at 15:05

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