@blambert555 I was far less friendly to you and @cvrebert than you guys deserved, and I apologize for that. Obviously, I have a chip on my shoulder about .htaccess. Last I checked, AWStats can even run without authentication (as opposed to, say, Nagios, which will refuse to even load without it), so unless things have changed, I wouldn't make that part of this. I think the proper solution is to give the Apache module some more love, so that it can be used in tandem with AWStats. Unfortunately, different distros have different ways to lay out Apache configs, and that makes it a pain. I don't like Debian,but I love how they've laid out their Apache configs, and I'm tempted to just write direct support for that into Salt and tell everybody else to conform or suck it. (This is why I'm  not the community manager)