Matomo
Matomo 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
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
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 Matomo
Matomo needs some additional packages
apk add php-zlib php-pdo_mysql
Create the a folder named webapps
mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/
Download the source code
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget https://builds.matomo.org/matomo-latest.zip
Unpack the archive and remove it afterwards
unzip latest.zip rm How\ to\ install\ Piwik.html latest.zip
Change the folder permissions
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/
Make a symlinks to the piwik folder
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/piwik/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/piwik
Configuration and start MySql
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql rc-service 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.