In order to enable “Update Now” in Awstats in cPanel follow the below steps:
Login to server via SSH
You need to edit the domain awstats conf (awstats.domainName.conf) file:
cd /home/username/tmp/awstats
Search for the “AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser”,in the conf file.
(The default value of AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser will be 0)
grep AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser awstats.example.com.conf
It should be set to AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1
If not, edit the file and save.
vi awstats.domainName.conf
Edit AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser configuration as
AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1
Save the file and exit.
Restart cpanel service
service cpanel restart
Done.