whitehall VS community-edition

github.com/alphagov/whitehall (117k lines): Publishes government content on gov.uk.

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See the diff on Github: https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall/issues/6689

With our data safely stored on our local machine, it was time to spin up a new instance of Plausible. For this, I recommend the official Community Edition Guide from GitHub.

Plausible seems like a fine choice for simple cases.

It is still oriented at websites, but you can send events directly to the API: https://plausible.io/docs/events-api

It is self-hostable, too. https://github.com/plausible/hosting

I'm working on creating an EC2 instance that will use Docker Compose to run the open-source Plausible service. It contains a web app, a smtp server, and a few DBs. The data on the DBs are going to be stored on Docker volumes.

sudo apt update -y curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-compose containerd.io -y sudo mkdir /var/www cd /var/www sudo git clone https://github.com/plausible/hosting cd hosting sudo git clone https://github.com/TheBrianGraf/AmazonLightsail/ sudo chmod +x ./AmazonLightsail/Plausible-conf-setup.sh

We'll use the Plausible nginx example as a template:

cd /home/cleavr mkdir plausible cd plausible git clone https://github.com/plausible/hosting cd hosting key="$(openssl rand -base64 64 | tr -d '\n' ; echo)" echo " ADMIN_USER_EMAIL={{ADMIN_USER_EMAIL}} ADMIN_USER_NAME={{ADMIN_USER_NAME}} ADMIN_USER_PWD={{ADMIN_USER_PWD}} BASE_URL={{BASE_URL}} SECRET_KEY_BASE=$key " > plausible-conf.env docker-compose up -d

$ curl -L https://github.com/plausible/hosting/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xz $ cd hosting-master

For this little project, we will use their up and running template that has everything we need to boot up our Plausible server.

git clone https://github.com/plausible/hosting cd hosting

How did you try to get it running? They have a docker-compose setup[1] that was super easy to use. It looks to be 5 months old so if you tried before then, good news, it's easy now!

[1] https://github.com/plausible/hosting