There was a problem for me after publishing the vnStat PHP article, it's vnStat console could not update its database automatically. The result was vnStat PHP cannot update the data automatically as well. The cause is probably because I accidentally ran vnstat update as root. But apparently the solution is easy. Just make the user of vnstatd daemon the owner of the database directory.

vnStat PHP is a nice bandwidth monitoring tool with web interface based on vnStat console. vnStat PHP can show you visual graph and table of hourly, daily, and monthly bandwidth usage. It can monitor any network interface you use (WLAN, LAN, etc.). It doesn't need MySQL database to run, just Apache web server is enough. So it's good for desktop users and this article shows how to install it in some easy steps. vnStat PHP is a frontend by Bjorge Dijkstra, while vnStat is a program by Teemu Toivola, and both are free software under GPLv2.

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