AWStats: cannot access /var/log/apache2/access.log
- by Joril
I installed awstats on my new Ubuntu Lucid server, but when cron tries to run it as user www-data, it complains that cannot access /var/log/apache2/access.log: Permission denied.
In /usr/share/doc/awstats/README.Debian there's this paragraph:
By default Apache stores (since
version 1.3.22-1) logfiles with
uid=root and gid=adm, so you need to
either...
1) Change the rights of the logfiles
in /etc/logrotate.d/apache so that
www-data has at least read access.
2) As 1) but change to a specific
user, and use the suEXEC feature of
Apache
to run as same user (and either change the right of /var/lib/awstats
as
well or use another directory). This is more complicated, but then the
logs
are not generally accessible to the server (which was probably the
point of
the Apache default).
3) Change awstats.pl to group adm
(but beware that you are then taking
the
risk of allowing a CGI-script access to admin stuff on the
machine!).
I'd go with 1, but what are the recommended permissions to grant?
