Awstats

Set up Awstats on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup awstats log analyzer on Alpine linux. What we will install is the following:

• Lighttpd
• Awstats

Installing Lighthttpd and Awstats

Installing Lighthttpd

   apk add lighttpd 

Installing Awstats

   apk add awstats -U -X http://build.alpinelinux.org:8009/backports/1.10/ --allow-untrusted

Configuring Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf

 nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Uncomment line:

 include "mod_cgi.conf"

Change the base server root folder

 #server.document-root = var.basedir + "/htdocs" 
 server.document-root = "/usr/lib/awstats"

Configuting Awstats

Run awstats_configure.pl

   awstats_configure.pl

   -----> Running OS detected: Linux, BSD or Unix
   Do you want to continue setup from this NON standard directory [yN] ? y
   
   -----> Check for web server install
   Config file path ('none' to skip web server setup): none
   -----> Need to create a new config file ?  y
   
   -----> Define config file name to create
   Example: www.mysite.com
   Example: demo
   Your web site, virtual server or profile name: awstats
   
   -----> Define config file path
   >/etc/awstats 
   
   Press ENTER to continue...
   Press ENTER to finish...

Edit awstats.awstats.conf

   nano /etc/awstats/awstats.awstats.conf 
   Search the line LogFile=" " and configure your log path and file. e.g. LogFile="/var/log/messages"

Start http server and add to boot

   /etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default

Browse

   http://AWSTATS_IP_NUMBER/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=awstats

Note: Awstats is not working yet with dansguardian logs.

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