Piwik Web Stats

This page is to document the ​Piwik server that is to be installed on the DevelopmentServer, the install was done on ticket:160

Dev Server Install

Site: ​https://piwik.transitionnetwork.org/

Download

cd /web/
mkdir piwik.transitionnetwork.org
cd piwik.transitionnetwork.org/
wget http://piwik.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip

Apache

Then set up apache, see /etc/apache2/sites-available/piwik.transitionnetwork.org and run the web installer and:

cd /web/piwik.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/
chown -R www-data:www-data tmp/
chown -R www-data:www-data config/

MySQL

Then a MySQL user and database was added using phpMyAdmin which ran the following SQL:

CREATE USER 'piwik'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '********';
GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO 'piwik'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '********' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ;
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `piwik` ;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `piwik` . * TO 'piwik'@'localhost';

Tracking code

The installer suggested this JS tracking code, see the docs at ​http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/ :

<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://piwik.transitionnetwork.org.webarch.net/" : "http://piwik.transitionnetwork.org.webarch.net/");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script><script type="text/javascript">
try {
var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", 1);
piwikTracker.trackPageView();
piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
} catch( err ) {}
</script><noscript><p><img src="http://piwik.transitionnetwork.org.webarch.net/piwik.php?idsite=1" style="border:0" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Piwik Tracking Code -->

And this image tracking code:

<!-- Piwik Image Tracker -->
<img src="https://piwik.transitionnetwork.org.webarch.net/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1" style="border:0" alt="" />
<!-- End Piwik -->

The following parameters can also be passed to the image URL:

• rec - (required) The parameter &rec=1 is required to force the request to be recorded
• idsite - (required) Defines the Website ID being tracked
• action_name - Defines the custom Page Title for this page view
• idgoal - The request will trigger the given Goal
• urlref - The Referrer URL: must be set to the referrer URL used before landing on the page containing the Image tracker. For example, in PHP this value is accessible via

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

• revenue - Used with idgoal, defines the custom revenue for this conversion

Logo

Customise the logo:

cd /web/piwik.transitionnetwork.org/piwik
chown -R www-data:www-data themes/

Cron

Set up the ​crontab to automatically archive the reports:

crontab -u www-data -e

5 * * * * /web/piwik.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh > /dev/null

Python

For the Google Analytics data import we need Python 2.6 and we are running with Python 2.5.2, so ​following this a source compile was done on the dev server, however for the live server it would make more sense to follow ​these instructions and use the debs from testing perhaps:

aptitude build-dep python2.5 
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.7/Python-2.6.7.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-2.6.7.tgz
cd Python-2.6.7
./configure --with-threads --enable-shared
make
make install 
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpython2.6.so* /usr/lib/
cd /usr/local/src
wget 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz#md5=7df2a529a074f613b509fb44feefe74e'
tar zxvf setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz
cd setuptools-0.6c11
python setup.py install
cd /usr/local/src
wget "https://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata-2.0.14.tar.gz" --no-check-certificate
tar -zxvf gdata-2.0.14.tar.gz
cd gdata-2.0.14
python setup.py install
purge python-mysqldb
wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mysql-python/mysql-python/1.2.3/MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz 
cd MySQL-python-1.2.3
vim site.cfg
 mysql_config = /usr/bin/mysql_config
aptitude install libmysqlclient-dev
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

GA Import

See python notes above and ​Google2Piwik.

cd /web/piwik.transitionnetwork.org/
wget http://clearcode.cc/google2piwik-1.2.5.tgz
tar -zxvf google2piwik-1.2.5.tgz
cd google2piwik-1.2.5
cp google2piwik.conf.sample google2piwik.conf

Edit google2piwik.conf:

## Google Account Credentials
# If you don't know your site table_id type:
#                       ./google2piwik.py -p
[google]
user_login = XXX@gmail.com
user_pass  = XXX
table_id   = ga:XXX

# MySQL Piwik Database configuration
[mysql]
db = piwik
host = localhost
port = 3306
user = piwik
passwd = XXX
table_prefix = 

# Set export date range
[export]
start = 2011-05-01
end   = 2011-06-29

## Piwik configuration of site.
# For default Piwik installation with one website, site_id should be set to 1
[piwik]
site_id  = 1
site_url = http://www.transitionnetwork.org

Get the table_id and test and backup db:

./google2piwik.py -p
./google2piwik.py -c
mysql_backup

Piwik, for the website you are importing data to, ​change the timezone to UTC and run the script:

./google2piwik.py --verbose=2

Requirements

The ​requirements are:

• PHP version 5.1.3 or greater, We highly recommend using at least PHP 5.3 as it is much more memory efficient than previous PHP versions, we have: PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny10 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli), when the server is migrated to squeeze we will get a new php, it can wait till then.
• MySQL version 4.1 or greater, we have 5.0.51a-24+lenny5-log
• (enabled by default) PHP extension pdo and pdo_mysql, weh have these already installed and they are configured via /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/pdo.ini and /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/pdo_mysql.ini
• PHP GD extension, installed already
• Increase your PHP memory_limit value in your php.ini config file to be at least memory_limit = 128M, we have 256M already in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini