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Piwik Web Stats
The Piwik webstats server is available at: https://stats.transitionnetwork.org/
The site is currently running on wiki:PenguinServer#stats.transitionnetwork.org via Nginx, previously there was a live site on Quince and a dev site on Kiwi using Apache, see the old Apache PiwikServerInstall notes.
Accessing the stats
If you need access to the stats for one of more site please contact webproject@… or chris@… to request an account and state which sites you need access to.
If you have an android or iOS mobile phone then you can install the Piwik app for your device from the apple store or google play, see http://piwik.org/mobile/
Sites
Currently stats are generated for the following sites:
- Transition Network
- Transition Movie
- Transition Wiki
- 2010 Archive
- 2011 Archive
- Static Archive
- TTech Trac
- Parrot Server
- Earth Inheritors
- REconomy
Adding a site
To add a site you need to contact webproject@… or chris@… and they can login and and use the sites manager to add a site and get the tracking code for the site, they should add the site to the PiwikServer#Sites list above.
They should then create a user and grant the new user access to the stats for the sites they need access to.
If the new site is running a content management system such as Drupal or Wordpress then please install the plugin for your CMS, see http://piwik.org/integrate/
Tickets
Current Piwik tickets:
| Ticket | Summary | Owner | Reporter |
|---|---|---|---|
| #909 | What's involved in enabling longer Piwik reports? | chris | sam |
| #882 | Login to PiWik stats | chris | annesley |
| #855 | Piwik plugins | chris | sam |
| #768 | Piwik Archive Cron Error | chris | chris |
| #675 | Piwik Geolocation | chris | chris |
Closed Piwik tickets:
Updates
To update Piwik, switch off the recording of stats by setting record_statistics to 0 in /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/config/config.ini.php:
[Tracker] record_statistics = 0
Backup the config file:
cd /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/ cp piwik/config/config.ini.php .
Download, extract, and update the database and restart php-fpm:
export PIWIK="2.5.0" wget "https://builds.piwik.org/piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz" wget "https://builds.piwik.org/piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz.asc" gpg --verify piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz.asc tar -zxvf piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz cp config.ini.php piwik/config/ chown -R www-data:www-data piwik/ php /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/console core:update /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
Note that sometime the .tar.gz files are not available at the same time as the .zip files so you might need to use the following steps:
export PIWIK="2.5.0" wget "https://builds.piwik.org/piwik-$PIWIK.zip" wget "https://builds.piwik.org/piwik-$PIWIK.zip.asc" gpg --verify piwik-$PIWIK.zip.asc unzip piwik-$PIWIK.zip cp config.ini.php piwik/config/ chown -R www-data:www-data piwik/ php /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/console core:update /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
Switch recording of stats back on by setting record_statistics to 1 in /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/config/config.ini.php:
[Tracker] record_statistics = 1
Login and do a system check.
Past update tickets:
- 2.14.3 ticket:869
- 2.14.1 ticket:866
- 2.14.0 ticket:861
- 2.13.0 ticket:848#comment:3
- 2.13.0-rc1 ticket:848
- 2.12.1 ticket:840
- 2.12.0 ticket:838
- 2.11.2 ticket:835
- 2.11.1 ticket:833
- 2.10.0 ticket:817
- 2.9.1 ticket:810
- 2.9.0 ticket:807
- 2.8.3 ticket:801
- 2.8.1 ticket:800
- 2.8.0 ticket:796
- 2.7.0 ticket:791
- 2.6.1 ticket:782
- 2.5.0 ticket:776
- 2.4.1 ticket:756
- 2.4.0 ticket:752
- 2.3.0 ticket:732
- 2.2.2 ticket:729
- 2.2.1 ticket:726
- 2.2.0 ticket:720
- 2.1.0 ticket:697
- 2.0.3 ticket:672
- 2.0.2 ticket:664
- 2.0.1 ticket:660
- 1.12 ticket:556
- 1.11.1 ticket:515
- 1.11 ticket:509
- 1.10.1 ticket:470#comment:13
- 1.9.1 ticket:436
- 1.8.4 ticket:418
Logo
For a while there was an error because we have overwritten three logo files, see ticket:672, but now the Transition Network logo is now uploaded via the web interface, see ticket:697#comment:3 and this isn't an issue.
Cron
Archiving of Piwiki stats is done by this crontab, /etc/cron.d/piwik-archive:
MAILTO="root@localhost" #5 * * * * www-data /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/console core:archive --url=http://stats.transitionnetwork.org/ >> /var/log/piwik-archive.log 5 2-23 * * * www-data /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/console core:archive --url=http://stats.transitionnetwork.org/ >> /var/log/piwik-archive.log
It doesn't run at 5 past midnight or 5 past 1am as there were often errors when it ran at this time, probably because the MySQL database backup is also running, see ticket:768#comment:6.
The log file that is created, /var/log/piwik-archive.log is rotated by logrotate which is configured with /etc/logrotate.d/piwik which contains:
/var/log/piwik-archive.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 30
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
}
This crontab was created on ticket:726#comment:2 and updated on ticket:768#comment:4 and ticket:768#comment:5.
Server Log Analytics
Following a failed attempt to get wiki:AwStatsInstall working Piwik has been set up to analyse the Nginx logs from wiki:PuffinServer.
The Nginx logs from wiki:PuffinServer are copied to wiki:PenguinServer as documented on the wiki:AwStatsInstall page.
The logs are imported using the wiki:PiwikImportScript which is run by the www-data user using this crontab:
30 07 * * * /usr/local/bin/piwik-import > /dev/null
Plugins
Do Not Track
Upgraded to version 0.3 on ticket:414
Penguin Server
See wiki:PenguinServer#stats.transitionnetwork.org and see ticket:470#comment:13 for the notes on the migration from Apache to Nginx. See also the initial research comments on the migration to Nginx, ticket:357#comment:14 ticket:357#comment:28.
See the GeoIP install notes, ticket:470#comment:33 and the setup of the Mediawiki plugin ticket:470#comment:32 and the Nginx install ticket:470#comment:13 and cronjob ticket:470#comment:13 and the Nginx config ticket:470#comment:34
