SqStat

What is SqStat

SqStat is a script which allows to look through active squid users connections. It use cachemgr protocol to get information from squid proxy server.

Set up SqStat on Alpine Linux

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

Lighttpd
PHP

Installing Lighthttpd and PHP

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

...
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

...
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi
...

Start `lighttpd` service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Installing SqStat

Download SqStat

cd /tmp wget http://samm.kiev.ua/sqstat/sqstat-1.20.tar.gz

Configuring SqStat

Unpack and move SqStat

gunzip sqstat-1.20.tar.gz tar xvf sqstat-1.20.tar -C /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ mv /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sqstat-1.20 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sqstat

Copy and edit the sqstats config file

cp /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sqstat/config.inc.php.defaults /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sqstat/config.inc.php nano /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sqstat/config.inc.php

Modify this lines with your proxy ip addres and port

/* Squid proxy server ip address or host name */
$squidhost[0]="127.0.0.1";
/* Squid proxy server port */
$squidport[0]=3128;

Configuring your squid server

Note: You need edit your squid.conf to allow cachemgr protocol

Edit squid.conf

nano /etc/squid/squid.conf

Add this lines and replace the ip addres with your webserver IP

acl manager proto cache_object
# replace 10.0.0.1 with your webserver IP
acl webserver src 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
http_access allow manager webserver
http_access deny manager

Restart squid

rc-service squid restart

Browse and see

http://SQSTAT_IP_NUMBER/sqstat/sqstat.php