Setup Webalizer to Use Virtual Hosts

I currently use Webalizer to analyze my web server logs. However, several websites are hosted from my servers, so aggregate data on all websites is nothing but a bunch or pretty graphs and numbers. In order for all that data to be useful, I had to make each virtual host log to separate files for Webalizer to analyze separately.

In my httpd.conf, I have the following logging setting, which is actually one of the default settings:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

Then, within each <VirtualHost>, I have specified a CustomLog directive:

CustomLog /var/log/apache/www.inlesserterms.net/access_log combined

Next, I created a directory inside /etc named webalizer. Inside this directory, I created a separate .conf file for each of the virtual hosts configured in Apache. Each .conf file had these directives:

LogFile   /var/log/apache/www.inlesserterms.net/access_log
OutputDir /usr/share/apache2/htdocs/webalizer/www.inlesserterms.net
HostName  www.inlesserterms.net
HideReferrer inlesserterms.net*

Of course, I had to create /var/log/apache/www/inlesserterms.net and /usr/share/apache2/htdocs/webalizer/www.inlesserterms.net directories.

Finally, I created a Cron job which will run the following command daily:

for i in /etc/webalizer/*.conf
do
  webalizer -c $i
done