diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/templates/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf b/roles/copr/backend/templates/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
index 6bb6433cc1..89210fe51a 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/templates/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/templates/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
@@ -532,7 +532,12 @@ $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/archive/spacewalk/" {
   index-file.names   = ( "index.html" )
   accesslog.filename = ""
 }
-server.max-worker = 6 # this may break many things
+
+# This may break many things, per: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Server_max-workerDetails
+# At least we have to use cronolog: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Docs_ModAccesslog
+# But we need logrotate for logcounter, see /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd, and
+# logrotate doesn't work well with logcounter.
+server.max-worker = 6
 
 $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/archive/spacewalk($|/)" {
   accesslog.filename = "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/templates/logrotate/lighttpd.j2 b/roles/copr/backend/templates/logrotate/lighttpd.j2
index 11088c8c8e..ec3e04f08c 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/templates/logrotate/lighttpd.j2
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/templates/logrotate/lighttpd.j2
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-# We don't want to reload lighttpd twice (for each log file), so we use
-# the sharedscripts option.  This means that hitcounter is run only once too
-# (which is good).  In (likely impossible) situations when access.log is empty
-# and error.log not, we would call hitcounter too on an empty file.
+# We don't want to reload twice (for each log file), so we use the sharedscripts
+# option.  This means that hitcounter is run only once too (which is good).  In
+# (likely impossible) situations when access.log is empty and error.log not, we
+# would call hitcounter too on an empty file.
+#
+# Note that lighttpd server runs with max-workers, and thus we pipe the access
+# logs through cronolog to the access.log.  It doesn't make sense to -HUP
+# Lighty, because then it doesn't restart cronolog.  We need to -HUP the
+# cronolog directly (which is fortunately re-started by Lighty/mod_accesslog).
 
 /var/log/lighttpd/*.log {
     rotate 5
@@ -18,6 +23,6 @@
 {% endif %}
     endscript
     postrotate
-        /usr/bin/killall -HUP lighttpd &>/dev/null || :
+        /usr/bin/killall -HUP cronolog &>>/var/log/copr-backend/cronolog-restart.log || :
     endscript
 }