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Piwik s a real time web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, and more.

• Lighttpd with PHP
• MySql
• Piwik

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Install extra packages:

apk add php-mysql mysql mysql-client

Installing and configuring Piwik

Piwik needs some additional packages

apk add php-zlib php-pdo_mysql

Make webapps folder

mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/

Download

cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://piwik.org/latest.zip

Unpack

unzip latest.zip rm How\ to\ install\ Piwik.html latest.zip

Change folder permissions

chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/

Make symlinks to Piwik

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/piwik/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/piwik

Configuration and start MySql

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Create the Piwik database

mysql -u root -p

Configuration of Piwik

Browse

http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/piwiki/