Securing Awstats

Password protecting Awstats on Rocky Linux 9.x

1. Add the following to the end of the httpd.conf file:

<Directory "/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot">
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
    
    AuthType basic
	AuthName "NOC Authentication"
	AuthUserFile /etc/awstats/awstats.htpasswd

	<Files awstats.pl>
		Require valid-user
	</Files>
</Directory>

2. In the /etc/awstats directory run the following command as root:

]# htpasswd -c awstats.htpasswd username