A script to setup goaccess on Ubuntu for nginx

install_goaccess.sh

# Install goaccess
echo "deb https://deb.goaccess.io/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goaccess.list
wget -O - https://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install goaccess

# Update logrotate so it won't create tiny files
echo "
/var/log/nginx/*.log {
        yearly
        maxsize 1000000000
        missingok
        rotate 4
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 0640 www-data adm
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi \
        endscript
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1
        endscript
}
" | sudo tee /etc/logrotate.d/nginx

# Create script to update goaccess.html files. I put mine in /var/www/html/
echo "
#!/bin/bash

for f in /var/log/nginx/*.access.log; do
    goaccess $f --log-format=COMBINED -a -o /var/www/html/$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f5 | cut -d'.' -f1).html
done
" | sudo tee /usr/bin/update_goaccess.sh

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/update_goaccess.sh

# Now you can simply call it and serve the html files!
sudo /usr/bin/update_goaccess.sh
# I automate this with cron
# sudo crontab -e
# Set it to run every 5 minutes
# */5 * * * * /usr/bin/update_goaccess.sh

# Finally, goaccess does not ship with a login so we will have to use nginx basic auth
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd YOUR_USERNAME

# Update your nginx server file accordingly by adding this:
#auth_basic "Restricted Content";
#auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
# See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04 for more detail

sudo systemctl restart nginx