Piwik
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
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages:
vi /etc/apk/repositories
Uncomment the following:
http://pkg.example.com/alpine/v3.11/community
Update the packagelist:
apk update
Install the additional packages:
apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-session php7-iconv php7-json php7-gd php7-curl php7-xml php7-mysqli php7-imap php7-cgi fcgi php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-soap php7-xmlrpc php7-posix php7-mcrypt php7-gettext php7-ldap php7-ctype php7-dom php7-simplexml
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Uncomment line:
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
Start lighttpd service and add to needed 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
Create the a folder named webapps
mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/
Download the source code
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://piwik.org/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 /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.