Install Piwik with Trellis

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A client wants to get Piwik installed for his website.

I was wondering if it would be possible to have Piwik running on the same server as the wp installations, just on a subdomain like piwik.site1.com.

So folder structure would be

project.com

  • trellis
  • site1
  • piwik

My question now, does that even make sense? And if, how could I achieve that? Since trellis always installs wordpress for a new configured site. Could that be somehow bypassed?

Thanks for any tips and hints.

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There’s some existing roles to install Pwik using Ansible like https://github.com/ICTO/ansible-piwik.

I suggest just trying one of those. Add it to Trellis like other Galaxy roles we have in requirements.yml. Then add the role to server.yml and customize the variables.

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I was looking at this the other week. Do you need Piwik to be installed on a subdomain?

My thoughts were to just have it install via Composer into the web folder

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I ended up installing it on a separate instance for now. But will try your approach next time :slight_smile:

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Hi all,

I added a few small roles to Trellis which does most of the job.

# group_vars/{staging & production}/wordpress_sites.yml
...
matomo:
  db:
    user: matomo
    host: localhost

# group_vars/{staging & production}/vault.yml
...
matomo:
  db:
    password: 

# server.yml
...
- { role: matomo, tags: [matomo] }

# roles/matomo/defaults/main.yml
combined_wordpress_sites: "{{ wordpress_sites|combine(vault_wordpress_sites, recursive=True) }}"
addons_dir: "{{ www_root }}/{{ item.key }}/addons"
matomo_db_name: "matomo_{{ env }}"

# roles/matomo/tasks/main.yml
- name: Install Matomo
  composer:
      command: require
      arguments: piwik/piwik
      working_dir: "{{ addons_dir }}"
  with_dict: "{{ wordpress_sites }}"
  tags: matomo

- name: Create databases for Matomo
  mysql_db:
    name: "{{ matomo_db_name }}"
    state: present
    login_host: "{{ site_env.db_host }}"
    login_user: "{{ mysql_root_user }}"
    login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"
  with_dict: "{{ wordpress_sites }}"
  tags: matomo

- name: Create/assign database user to db and grant permissions
  mysql_user:
    name: "{{ item.value.matomo.db.user }}"
    password: "{{ item.value.matomo.db.password }}"
    host: "{{ site_env.db_user_host }}"
    append_privs: yes
    priv: "{{ matomo_db_name }}.*:ALL"
    state: present
    login_host: "{{ site_env.db_host }}"
    login_user: "{{ mysql_root_user }}"
    login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"
  with_dict: "{{ combined_wordpress_sites }}"
  tags: matomo

- name: Change addons owner to web_user
  file:
    path: "{{ addons_dir }}"
    owner: "{{ web_user }}"
    group: "{{ web_group }}"
    state: directory
    recurse: yes
  with_dict: "{{ wordpress_sites }}"
  tags: matomo


- name: Explain next steps
  debug:
    msg: |
      If necessary, set up Matomo as follows.
      1) Deploy
      2) Point your browser to {{ wordpress_env_defaults.wp_home }}/analytics
      3) Proceed with the form using following credentials:
         Host:              {{ site_env.db_user_host }}
         Database:          {{ matomo_db_name }}
         Database User:     {{ item.value.matomo.db.user }}
         Database Password: {{ item.value.matomo.db.password }}
         Table Prefix:      none
         Set up your admin user.
      4) Log in to Matomo.
      5) Under Administration/System/Geolocation, download and activate the GeoIP 2 database.
  with_dict: "{{ combined_wordpress_sites }}"
  tags: matomo

# roles/deploy/defaults/main.yml
...
deploy_share_after:
  - "{{ playbook_dir }}/deploy-hooks/share-after.yml"

# deploy-hooks/share-after.yml
- name: Create symlink to Matomo
  file:
    path: "{{ deploy_helper.new_release_path }}/web/analytics"
    src: "{{ addons_dir }}/vendor/piwik/piwik"
    state: link
  with_items: "{{ wordpress_sites }}"

Install & deploy.
Connect to web and follow the installation assistant. This step is only necessary after the first install. It could be automated, but too much work for what it is.

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Awesome :tada: Thanks so much for sharing, I’m not into Ansible (yet) and needed guidance, installs fine…!

I needed to create the addons_dir first though – how / where did you set that one up? I am now establishing the folder in roles/matomo/tasks/main.yml (btw: I changed the order of the DB details in the install instructions there to match Matomo’s input fields) and then I also needed to reference the directory in roles/deploy/defaults/main.yml explicitly otherwise the deploy will fail…

Created this gist for reference.

Thanks again!

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Well spotted, I forgot about that (different file on my setup).

# roles/matomo/tasks/main.yml
---
- name: Create addons folder of sites
  file:
    path: "{{ addons_dir }}"
    owner: "{{ web_user }}"
    group: "{{ web_group }}"
    mode: 0755
    state: directory
  with_dict: "{{ wordpress_sites }}"

Great idea for the gist!

You are right again! I have it in there as well.

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Out of curiosity, how does the compatibility with Trellis work using the ICTO/ansible-piwik role?
For deb-style dependencies (Ubuntu), php5 is used, while Trellis uses php7,

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Matomo (ex Piwik) does work with PHP 7 just as well as with 5.
ICTO/ansible-piwik seems out of date. Matomo moved to a new format for the geoip databases also.
I’d recommend building your own task based on the above comments.

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What about this ? Lakim repository

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Apparently it assumes an apache based setup:

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Yes, but this repo is a good starting point (incl. php71 and etc)

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It is outdated as well, for the same reasons as put forward in post 9.

That is not needed if using Trellis, since Trellis already installs PHP.

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For everyone interested in using Matomo with Trellis:

I have created a corresponding Ansible-role that takes care of installation & the corresponding config :arrow_right: GitHub - E-VANCE/trellis-matomo: Matomo for Trellis

Looking forward to your feedback / test runs / issues / PRs.

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