Countly is an open-source platform that allows you to analyze user behavior and usage patterns of your mobile applications, web applications, and desktop applications. Countly offers a Community Edition which can be installed on your own server, giving you complete control over your data. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Countly Community Edition on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before you begin with the installation of Countly Community Edition, ensure that your system is up-to-date. Connect to your server via SSH and run the following commands:
sudo pacman -Syu
Countly requires several dependencies to be installed on your system. Run the following command to install those dependencies:
sudo pacman -S mongodb nginx npm
Create a new directory for Countly:
sudo mkdir /opt/countly
Download Countly Community Edition:
sudo -i
cd /opt/countly
curl -L https://github.com/Countly/countly-server/archive/countly-community-20.11.zip -o countly.zip
unzip countly.zip
mv countly-server-countly-community-20.11/* .
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install --unsafe-perm
Create a configuration file:
sudo nano /opt/countly/config.js
Add the following lines in the configuration file:
exports.mongodb = {
host: 'localhost',
db: 'countly',
port: 27017,
max_pool_size: 200,
username: 'countly',
password: 'password'
};
Create a new Nginx server block for Countly:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/countly
Add the following lines in the server block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name analytics.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6001/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
Replace analytics.example.com with your own domain name.
Enable the Nginx server block:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/countly /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Start Countly using the following command:
npm start
You can now access Countly by navigating to http://your-server-ip/ in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Countly Community Edition on EndeavourOS Latest. You can now use Countly to track user behavior and usage patterns of your mobile applications, web applications, and desktop applications.
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