AWStats under Nginx and SCGI

2011-09-14T06:00:00-07:00

Earlier, I wrote about running CGI Scripts with Nginx using SCGI with the help of a small C shim. One particular CGI app I've had to alter slightly to work under this setup is AWStats, which is a decent-sized Perl app, but only requires one line added to satisfy SCGI's requirement of a Status line at the beginning of a response.

Here's a patch to AWStats 7.0

--- awstats.pl.original 2011-09-11 21:20:40.954555528 -0500
+++ awstats.pl  2011-03-31 00:19:35.867343845 -0500
@@ -750,6 +750,7 @@
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 sub http_head {
        if ( !$HeaderHTTPSent ) {
+                print "Status: 200 OK\n";
                my $newpagecode = $PageCode ? $PageCode : "utf-8";
                if ( $BuildReportFormat eq 'xhtml' || $BuildReportFormat eq 'xml' ) {
                        print( $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /MSIE|Googlebot/i

Fun with ones and zeros - awstats

AWStats under Nginx and SCGI