diff --git a/server/lib/classes/cron.d/150-awstats.inc.php b/server/lib/classes/cron.d/150-awstats.inc.php
index 1ef4ac4672759c266c802a3e02c1bd9efa6b0a4d..5b54a181cf3e5b4842c990c39655052e6e81f4d0 100644
--- a/server/lib/classes/cron.d/150-awstats.inc.php
+++ b/server/lib/classes/cron.d/150-awstats.inc.php
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ class cronjob_awstats extends cronjob {
         LogFile="/var/log/ispconfig/httpd/'.$domain.'/yesterday-access.log"
         SiteDomain="'.$domain.'"
         HostAliases="www.'.$domain.' localhost 127.0.0.1'.$aliasdomain.'"';
-				file_put_contents($awstats_website_conf_file, $awstats_conf_file_content);
+				if (isset($include_file)) {
+					file_put_contents($awstats_website_conf_file, $awstats_conf_file_content);
+				} else {
+					$app->log("No awstats base config found. Either awstats.conf or awstats.model.conf must exist in ".$awstats_conf_dir.".", LOGLEVEL_WARN);
+				}
 			}
 
 			if(!@is_dir($statsdir)) mkdir($statsdir);
diff --git a/server/plugins-available/apache2_plugin.inc.php b/server/plugins-available/apache2_plugin.inc.php
index 933aa0272ccc377aabd58a4fba6a66ecc93ac068..620ea6deaaee885447631eca3566972ff437d81d 100644
--- a/server/plugins-available/apache2_plugin.inc.php
+++ b/server/plugins-available/apache2_plugin.inc.php
@@ -2636,8 +2636,12 @@ class apache2_plugin {
 			$content .= "SiteDomain=\"".$data['new']['domain']."\"\n";
 			$content .= "HostAliases=\"www.".$data['new']['domain']."  localhost 127.0.0.1\"\n";
 
-			$app->system->file_put_contents($awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', $content);
-			$app->log('Created AWStats config file: '.$awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);
+			if (isset($include_file)) {
+				$app->system->file_put_contents($awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', $content);
+				$app->log('Created AWStats config file: '.$awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);
+			} else {
+				$app->log("No awstats base config found. Either awstats.conf or awstats.model.conf must exist in ".$awstats_conf_dir.".", LOGLEVEL_WARN);
+			}
 		}
 
 		if(is_file($data['new']['document_root']."/" . $web_folder . "/stats/index.html")) $app->system->unlink($data['new']['document_root']."/" . $web_folder . "/stats/index.html");
diff --git a/server/plugins-available/nginx_plugin.inc.php b/server/plugins-available/nginx_plugin.inc.php
index 6d2f403fd5f208e2a72884a854e7423480851376..0025743b0d702e1333c5276f94af30abe7a8c5c9 100644
--- a/server/plugins-available/nginx_plugin.inc.php
+++ b/server/plugins-available/nginx_plugin.inc.php
@@ -2246,8 +2246,12 @@ class nginx_plugin {
 			$content .= "SiteDomain=\"".$data['new']['domain']."\"\n";
 			$content .= "HostAliases=\"www.".$data['new']['domain']."  localhost 127.0.0.1\"\n";
 
-			$app->system->file_put_contents($awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', $content);
-			$app->log('Created AWStats config file: '.$awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);
+			if (isset($include_file)) {
+				$app->system->file_put_contents($awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', $content);
+				$app->log('Created AWStats config file: '.$awstats_conf_dir.'/awstats.'.$data['new']['domain'].'.conf', LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);
+			} else {
+				$app->log("No awstats base config found. Either awstats.conf or awstats.model.conf must exist in ".$awstats_conf_dir.".", LOGLEVEL_WARN);
+			}
 		}
 
 		if(is_file($data['new']['document_root']."/" . $web_folder . "/stats/index.html")) $app->system->unlink($data['new']['document_root']."/" . $web_folder . "/stats/index.html");