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AWStats with lighttpd on Ubuntu

Posted by Alpha Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:23:00 GMT

Throughout this post, I’ll use foobar as a fake domain. You should replace this with the appropriate domain(s) for your own use.

First, install AWStats.

$ sudo apt-get install awstats

/etc/lighttpd.conf will need to be modified; this will be slightly different if you want to use a directory instead of a subdomain to check your stats.

/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )

$HTTP["host"] =~ "stats.foobar" {
  alias.url = ( "/icon/" => "/usr/share/awstats/icon/",
                "/css/" => "/usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/css/",
                "/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/" )
  cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )
}

Make sure this works by visiting http://stats.foobar/cgi-bin/awstats.pl. You should get an error message from the AWStats CGI file.

In /etc/awstats, make a awstats.foobar.conf file, replacing foobar with whatever is appropriate for your purposes.

/etc/awstats/awstats.foobar.conf

LogFile="/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
LogType=W
LogFormat=1
SiteDomain="foobar"
HostAliases="localhost 127.0.0.1 REGEX[foobar$]"
DNSLookup=1
DirData="/var/lib/awstats"
DirCgi="/cgi-bin"
DirIcons="/icon"
SkipHosts="127.0.0.1 localhost REGEX[^192\.168\.]"

Run awstats.pl to initialize the statistics database.

$ sudo -u www-data /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update

Your stats should now be visible at http://stats.foobar/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=foobar.

Now all that’s left is editing the crontab and logrotate configuration files to automatically populate the stats.

/etc/cron.d/awstats

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * www-data [ -x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -a -f /etc/awstats/awstats.foobar.conf -a -r /var/log/lighttpd/access.log ] && /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update >/dev/null

/etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd

prerotate
  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update
endscript