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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.

Install lighttpd, PHP, and MySql

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'

Configuration of Piwik

Browse to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/piwik/ and the configuration process will start.

Upgrading Piwik

It's still possible to upgrade Piwik by replace the old files with new ones. But a faster way is to use the integrated upgrade mechanism of Piwik itself. Just follow the instructions mentioned in the web interface.