Fancy&customized URL support for awstats with Nginx. Access through http://example.com/awstats/

awstats-nginx.conf

server {
  listen 127.0.0.1:81;
  server_name _;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/awstats.access_log combined;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/awstats.error_log;
  root /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot;
  index /awstats.pl;


  location ~ \.pl$ {
    rewrite ^((?!cgi-bin).)(.*)$ /cgi-bin/$2 break;
    gzip off;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    #fastcgi_index /cgi-bin/awstats.pl;
    fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
    fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME        $host;
  }
  # Restrict access
  auth_basic "Restricted";
  auth_basic_user_file /etc/awstats/htpasswd;

  # Static file handled by nginx automatically
  # default config not useful any more
}

vhost.conf

server {
  server_name your.domain;
  listen 80;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/vhost.access_log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/vhost.error_log;
  root /your/wwwroot/path;
  
  # ... other configs
  
  location /awstats/ {
    rewrite ^/awstats(/.*)$ $1 break;
    proxy_set_header	Host 		$host;
    proxy_set_header 	X-Real-IP 	$remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header 	X-Forwarded-For	$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    #proxy_set_header 	HTTP_AUTHORIZATION $http_authorization;
    proxy_pass 		http://127.0.0.1:81;
  }
}