No date format was found on your conf file

[andy15703166]

When I run “goaccess -f access_log -a > report.html” It alerts:

Error occured at: parser.c - parse_log - 1043
No date format was found on your conf file.

How can I make it work? Thank you

[allinurl]

Did you uncomment the date-format time-format and log-format under your /etc/goaccess.conf? or ~/.goaccessrc? I'm assuming you are using the latest version.

[andy15703166]

Well,at first I have to say thank you for your help.
Depending on your advice,I run the command again but this time there is a alert that:

"Fatal error has occurred
Error occured at: goaccess.c - main - 883
Nothing valid to process."

How to do that?
Thank you very very much.

[allinurl]

Can you post the log/time/date format that you are currently using and if you could post a sample line from your access log would be great.

[andy15703166]

Of cause.
There is a sample line below:

209.222.8.51 - - [08/Jul/2014:04:13:21 +0800] "GET /com/qzmm/psell/itemid-7589.html HTTP/1.1" 200 9531

[allinurl]

The following log format should do it (NCSA Combined Log Format):

%h %^[%d:%^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"

the following date format

%d/%b/%Y

and time format

%T

[andy15703166]

Thank you for help!

[allinurl]

Closing it. Feel free to open a new issue if needed.

[FrontierPsychiatrist]

I get the same error message even though I'm passing a date format via the --date-format parameter.

goaccess --log-format="%h %^[%d:%^] \"%r\" %s %b \"%R\" \"%u\"" --date-format=%d/%b/%Y -f 2015.log

[allinurl]

Try passing --no-global-config. Also, what version are you using? Feel free to post a few lines from your access log if that does not do it.

[FrontierPsychiatrist]

That also didn't help. Here's the version I'm using:
GoAccess - version 0.9 - Apr 15 2015 01:59:02

I've installed it via homebrew under OSX Yosemite, meaning the global config is in /usr/local/etc

This happend after the update I think (hadn't used it in a while). I also tried uncommenting the lines in the config but that still didn't work.

Also, I'm redirecting the output to an HTML file. If I open the log file in the ncurses mode it works.

Here are some lines from the log

188.165.15.97 - - [01/Apr/2015:01:05:04 +0200] "GET /api/0.5.0/api.html HTTP/1.1" 200 21907 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)"
2.106.55.68 - - [01/Apr/2015:01:32:07 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4282 "https://www.google.dk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36"
2.106.55.68 - - [01/Apr/2015:01:32:07 +0200] "GET /css/main.css HTTP/1.1" 200 97 "http://www.node-spotify.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36"

[allinurl]

Could you try uncommenting the log, date and time format from your config file and using -p /path/goaccess.conf and see if that works. It sounds like the config file is overwriting the command line options.

[FrontierPsychiatrist]

Ok, I feel a bit stupid now, I didn't get the exact same error message, actually the time format was missing. So I added --time-format=... to my call and everything's perfect. Sorry for wasting your time!

[warb2n]

Hello!
When i update my access i have error

Fatal error has occurred
Error occured at: src/parser.c - verify_formats - 1691
No time format was found on your conf file.

I use nginix and i have access 0.9.2 with stand. config file. What i need to do?

I try uncomment this but not working =@

date-format %d/%b/%Y
log-format %h %^[%d:%t %^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"

[allinurl]

@warb2n you will need to edit your goaccess config file (v0.9.2) and make sure to uncomment line 12 and 28, 48. Here's more info about this: http://goaccess.io/faq#howto-config

Let me know how it goes...