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