Matomo-scalingo-deploy

Matomo is a free and open source web analytics application, designed to be an open and compliant with GDPR alternative to Google Analytics.

Scalingo is a high-availability Platform as a Service (PaaS), like Heroku or Dokku.

This project is based on and uses the PaaS buildpack matomo-buildpack.

Usage

Installation

As a pre-requesites, you must be connected to a valid (with a valid payment method) Scalingo account.

Then follow the steps below:

Fork this repository
From the GitHub interface of your fork, edit the README.md file and change the "Deploy to Scalingo" href link to your repository's one
Save, commit and push your change
Click on the "one-click deployment" button above ; you will be redirected to the Scalingo new application interface
Fill-up the form about the Matomo application environment variables and follow the instructions

Configuration

Override Matomo config

To update the matomo config, edit the config file scripts/config.ini.php.tmpl. If you have secrets, set environnement variables and use them in the scripts/config.ini.php.tmpl file. For instance, we set the MATOMO_SALT this way.

Activating plugins

Set the environnement variable MATOMO_PLUGINS with a comma separated plugin list name. For instance you can enable the DbCommands, AdminCommands and LicenseKeyCommands plugins with MATOMO_PLUGINS=DbCommands,AdminCommands,LicenseKeyCommands.

Manage Purchased plugins

If not yet done, set the environment variable MATOMO_LICENSE_KEY with your own Matomo license key in your Scalingo app.

Then, declare your purchased plugins by setting the MATOMO_PURCHASED_PLUGINS environment variable as below:

MATOMO_PURCHASED_PLUGINS=Funnels:3.1.22,ActivityLog:3.4.0,RollUpReporting:3.2.7

Unfortunately, the Matomo plugins API does not provide a way to fetch the latest version of a given plugin for a given version à of Matomo (3.X or 4.X). It is why we must precise the version of each plugin.

Upgrade

⚠️ We strongly advise you to not use the auto-update feature in the Matomo administration interface at the risk of lose all your changes and having critical problems the next time your app will restart!

There is two ways to upgrade your Matomo instance:

a) wait for the original repository to upgrade the current version and rebase your fork on it
b) wait for matomo-buildpack to release a new version and change yourself the buidpack in ./buildpacks file

Advanced usage

Playing with the Matomo console

Matomo provides a CLI console within its distribution.

This program is written in PHP and requires such an environment to work.

You can easily access and run the Matomo console commands in a Scalingo one-off container. But in order to do it, you must previously regenerate the /app/config/config.ini.php file, in the same way as the bin/start-matomo.sh script.

scalingo --app my-matomo-instance run bash # run a one-off container
./bin/generate-config-ini.sh # generate the /app/config/config.ini.php file
php console list # list all the Matomo console commands

Exploring the database

First, run a one-off Scalingo container that loads the MySQL CLI:

scalingo --app my-matomo-instance mysql-console # run a one-off container

Then, connect to your Matomo database and enjoy your MySQL commands.

mysql> show databases; # list MySQL databases
mysql> use my_matomo_i_4515; # select the current database
mysql> show tables; # list all the DB tables

Force SSL

According to the Matomo documentation:

Configuring Matomo (Piwik) so that all requests are made over SSL (https://) is an easy way to improve security and keep your data safer.

In the Scalingo app environment, add the environment variable:

MATOMO_GENERAL_FORCE_SSL=1

Save your configuration and restart your application. That's it!

Disable Matomo Tracking

According to the Matomo documentation:

Before a Database upgrade on a high traffic Matomo (Piwik) server, it is highly recommended to disable Matomo Tracking.

In the Scalingo app environment, add the environment variable:

MATOMO_TRACKER_RECORD_STATISTICS=0

Save your configuration and restart your application. That's it!

Configuring a (recommended) auto-archiving CRON job

By default, archive reports are processed when viewed from the browser.

For medium to high traffic websites, it is recommended to disable Matomo archiving to trigger from the browser. Instead, Matomo recommends that you setup a cron job to process reports every hour.

This project comes with a pre-configured scheduled task, see command "cron" in the Procfile and the script bin/auto-archiving-reports.

To enable, auto-archiving reports processing, set the two environment variables below:

MATOMO_AUTO_ARCHIVING_FREQUENCY=3600 # in seconds
MATOMO_HOST=my-matomo-instance.osc-fr1.scalingo.io # your application host (the https:// is added automatically)

Think to disable the Archive reports when viewed from the browser option in the "Matomo > System > General settings > Archiving settings" menu.

Configuring e-mail sending

TODO…

Configuring multi-servers