Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open source analytics platform, an open alternative to Google Analytics. Matomo source is hosted on GitHub. It is a fully featured PHP/MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. In this guide, we will install Matomo on a fresh Fedora 28 Vultr server instance.
Requirements
- Nginx.
- PHP version 5.5.9 or greater.
- MySQL version 5.5 or greater.
- PHP extensions
pdo
and pdo_mysql
, or the mysqli
extension.
Before you begin
Check the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
Create a new non-root
user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Set up the timezone.
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP and required PHP extensions
Matomo recommends using PHP 7 as it is more memory efficient and faster than previous PHP versions. Default Fedora repositories contain PHP 7.2, so the installation will be simple.
Install PHP, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php php-fpm php-common php-curl php-gd php-cli php-mysqlnd php-xml php-mbstring php-json
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.6 (cli) (built: May 22 2018 16:22:08) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Install MariaDB
Install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.14-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and database user, and remember the credentials.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE db_name;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON db_name.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit
NOTE: Replace db_name
and username
with appropriate names for your setup. Replace password
with a strong password.
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.12.1
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/matomo.conf
and populate the file with the following configuration.
server {
listen 80;
server_name stats.example.com;
root /var/www/matomo;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Matomo
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/matomo
Change ownership of the /var/www/matomo
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/matomo
Download the latest release of Matomo.
cd /var/www/matomo
wget https://builds.piwik.org/piwik.zip && unzip piwik.zip
rm piwik.zip
mv piwik/* .
rmdir piwik
Change ownership of the /var/www/matomo
directory to nginx
.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/matomo
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
and set the user and group to nginx
. Initially, they will be set to apache
.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Restart the PHP-FPM service.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Open your web browser and navigate to the URL to which you have uploaded Matomo. You will see the "Matomo Installation Welcome Screen". If there are any problems, Matomo will identify them and offer a solution. Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the Matomo installation.