Wordpress 2.0.x and Dreamhost Stats

How many of you who have Wordpress isntalled on your sites have noticed stats don't work with the new version of WP?

Dreamhost guided me to a "fix" on their Wiki that woudl append the .htaccess file, but Wordpress repeatedly appended the appended .htaccess file so that the new code that was inserted would be wiped out (should I have chmod the .htaccess file to somehow prevent this?).

Another solution that I had someone provide for me was a plugin for Wordpress specifically for Dreamhost. Thsi plugin sort of works, and sort of doesn't -- meaning if I have an invalid syntax int he plugin file, I get error messages but am allowed to view Dreamhost stats, and if I repair the syntax inside the plugin file, the plugin fails to work (and going to yourpage.com/stats would simply redirect to the main page of the site).

Is there a definitive fix out there? Or more experiencing this error than just I?

Just take a look on the wiki: ;)
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Making_stats_accessible_with_htaccess

I've had the exact same problem, but just used a php script in a different directory to fread the appropriate log file. Then switched to AWStats, although I use good ol' php still to read the resources stuff. AWStats seems like a great solution. Not sure why that htaccess thingy doesn't work.

~Chell
http://www.chellsroost.com

You should try adding your own rules outside the # BEGIN WordPress & # END WordPress block. My .htaccess for www.ashchan.com looks like (and it works):
#BEGIN Ash
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/rocdeng ./_rocdeng.htm
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
</IfModule>
#END Ash

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I had a blog entry on this topic, the url is http://www.ashchan.com/2006/03/26/wordpress-cpu-usage-on-dreamhost/, but it was in Chinese. I hope the example above would help.

http://www.ashchan.com