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GoAccess with Nginx proxy

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Setup GoAccess WebSocket with Nginx proxy

GoAccess​

Web log analyzer

Install​

CentOS

# Install dependency
sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install ncurses-devel gcc

# Optional dependency
sudo yum -y install geoip-devel tokyocabinet-devel

# Download source
wget https://tar.goaccess.io/goaccess-1.6.2.tar.gz
tar -zxf goaccess-1.6.2.tar.gz

# Build
cd goaccess-1.6.2
./configure --enable-utf8 --enable-geoip=mmdb
make
make install

Real-time web output​

goaccess 
    -o /var/www/html/report/index.html
    --log-format=COMBINED
    --real-time-html

    # For WebSocket proxy
    --ws-url=ws://<server IP address>:80/ws/

    /var/log/nginx/access.log

Nginx proxy

Ref: Nginx WebSocket

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
        # ...
    }

    # Proxy WebSocket /ws/ to localhost:7890/
    location /ws/ {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:7890/;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
}