How I self hosted Matomo - Google Analytics Alternative

1. nginx-proxy-automation

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   Automated docker nginx proxy integrated with letsencrypt.

   

   I am using Docker to host Matomo, get Let's Encrypt SSL certificates and run Nginx as a reverse proxy. To make things really easy, we can setup the awesome evertramos/nginx-proxy-automation project. Follow the instructions in the README to setup the containers via Docker. This will automatically create a Docker network called webproxy.

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3. MatomoAnalytics-docker

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   Official Docker project for Matomo Analytics (by matomo-org)

   

   To make things easier I am using Docker Compose to configure multiple containers and run these with a single command. As a starting point for the docker compose configuration I've used the official example docker-compose.yml and tweaked it to work with the Nginx setup above. The configuration will create a "db" container which is a mariadb database and an "app" container which is the Matomo app itself.

4. matomo-setup

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   Matomo Docker Compose setup with automatic SSL certificate and Nginx configuration

   

   All configuration files below are available in a Github project. Tweaked docker-compose.yml:

5. Matomo

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   Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

   

   For my personal site and this blog I thought about not having any analytics at all. On the one hand I don't like to be tracked online, I think user's privacy is important. On the other hand I find it really interesting to see how people find my website and how many visits different pages or articles get. I also like to own the collected data and have full access to the data if I want and need to. For these reasons I have chosen Matomo as an analytics solution. Matomo can be set up to not use cookies at all and be completely GDPR compliant.

6. Docker Compose

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   Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

   

   To make things easier I am using Docker Compose to configure multiple containers and run these with a single command. As a starting point for the docker compose configuration I've used the official example docker-compose.yml and tweaked it to work with the Nginx setup above. The configuration will create a "db" container which is a mariadb database and an "app" container which is the Matomo app itself.

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