David B. Calhoun’s Blog

I’ve been using BBClone as a web counter for several years now, and it’s always been very useful and fun to watch. The biggest catch is that your pages must be in PHP format in order for the counter to function. However, with the latest releases, supposedly you can now monitor your webpages via your Apache htmlaccess logs.

Anyhow, I have finally gotten around to upgrading from version 0.4.3 to 0.4.9a. All I had to do to upgrade and transfer over all my old web stats was the following:

1. Save a copy of the old installation. Always keep backups, especially before you make big changes! All I did was rename my bbclone directory to bbclone_old.
2. Transfer the new files over.
3. Make the entire directory (and subdirectories) writable. If you don’t do this, BBClone won’t be able to save its data! Technically I suppose you could just make the bbclone/var directory writable, but I haven’t tried that and I’m not sure if it would work.
4. Transfer your old web stats files from your backup directory into the exact same location in your new directory. There are two files: 1) bbclone/var/access.php and 2) bbclone/var/last.php. Simply move/copy them into your new bbclone/var directory.
5. Test it out! This should be all you have to do to get it working!

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