The following solution works: I set my user-agent to: VerseOfTheDaySitemapRobot/1.0 (http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info) By doing: ini_set('user_agent', "VerseOfTheDaySitemapRobot/1.0 (http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info)"); When ran by a cron job this causes AWSTATS to treat the hits as: Unknown robot (identified by 'robot') 9704+18 284.82 MB 30 Nov 2010 - 07:12 The part which tricked me is that if I run the site map generator PHP script using a user interface the hits on the site are credited to the Firefox (the browser I use) user-agent string. The following article discusses how to change browser user agents: http://www.walkernews.net/2007/07/05/how-to-change-user-agent-string/ Ron The Verse of the Day âEncouragement from Godâs Wordâ http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
