Matomo

Self-hosted web analytics. Supports multiple websites at once.

Docs: https://matomo.org/help/ or https://developer.matomo.org/

Usage

Log in to https://matomo.sassafras.coop/.

You can add more websites via the "All Websites" page, which requires putting a small line of JavaScript on the website.

Production

Upgrades can be done in the browser by signing in and clicking "upgrade" which sometimes requires a database migration as a second step (also in the browser).

Also consider docker compose pull; docker compose up -d.

Tips:

• Env vars are at matomo/.env
• Matomo config is at matomo/matomo/config/config.ini.php
• Docker config is at matomo/docker-compose.yml
• The usual docker commands work e.g. docker compose up -d to automatically reload containers whose config changed

The ~2023 server was set up via (mostly) following https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-matomo-web-analytics-on-ubuntu-20-04 with the following modifications:

• Specific IP added to nginx's sites-available/matomo.conf
• Deleted sites-enabled/default to avoid port 80 conflict

See also more info at https://matomo.org/faq/on-premise/installing-matomo/.

TODO:

• Test rebooting server
• Set up nodeping
• Set up cron once it becomes slow
• Investigate more GDPR options
• Run https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-secure-installation/ which is mostly unnecessary but nice to double check