Open Web Analytics is an open-source web analytics software that helps website owners and developers track website analytics and contribute data privacy. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Open Web Analytics on Arch Linux.
Before you start, ensure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your Arch Linux system:
If you have not already installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL, install them using Pacman:
sudo pacman -S apache php mariadb
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
Once you have installed MySQL or MariaDB, login to MySQL shell by typing:
sudo mysql -u root -p
After logging in, create a new database and user for Open Web Analytics:
CREATE DATABASE owa_db;
CREATE USER 'owa_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owa_db.* TO 'owa_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
You can replace "password" with your desired password.
Visit the Open Web Analytics website to download the latest version of Open Web Analytics. Alternatively, you can use the command line to download and extract the package:
wget https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/archive/1.7.4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf 1.7.4.tar.gz
sudo mv Open-Web-Analytics-1.7.4 /var/www/html/owa
To enable Open Web Analytics to run smoothly, install some additional PHP extensions:
sudo pacman -S php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-zip
Next, configure Apache to serve the Open Web Analytics application:
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following lines at the end of the file:
<Directory "/var/www/html/owa">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /owa "/var/www/html/owa"
Save and close the file. Then restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost/owa/install/. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. When prompted, enter the database credentials you created in Step 2.
Upon successful installation, delete the install directory to secure your installation:
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/owa/install/
The next step is to configure Open Web Analytics. Open owa_config.php in your favorite editor:
sudo vim /var/www/html/owa/modules/base/owa_config.php
Update the following settings with your configuration:
define('OWA_DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('OWA_DB_USERNAME', 'owa_user');
define('OWA_DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('OWA_DB_DBNAME', 'owa_db');
Save and close the file.
You can now start tracking your website analytics using Open Web Analytics. To access the OWA dashboard, visit http://localhost/owa/.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Open Web Analytics on Arch Linux.
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