webalizer cookbook and definition for chef from opscode

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Install and run the webalizer with Chef from Opscode

http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-195/webalizer

As DRY as possible ;-)

What it is for

Simply put it derives the log file name from its name and takes a server name for where to access the output of webalizer.

How to use it

The simplest use case is

webalizer "your.example.com" do
  server_name "stats.example.com"
end

This looks for a access log file in

#{node[:apache][:log_dir]}/your.example.com-access.log

und puts the webalizer results (/etc/cron.daily/00-weablizer must be run either manually or from cron)

in

/var/www/usage/your.example.com

accessable through

http://stats.example.com/your.example.com

options are

webalizer "your.example.com" do
  server_name "stats.example.com"     # custom server name
  conf_template "webalizer.conf.erb"  # custom webalizer config
  site_template  "webalizer.site.erb"   #custom webalizer apache file
  cron_schedule :daily  # node[:webalizer][:cron_base_prefix]}#{params[:cron_schedule].to_s must be a cron directory
  log_type :clf # :clf :ftp or :squid
  cookbook "webalizer" were the templates reside
end