How to Install Countly Community Edition on EndeavourOS Latest

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.

Prerequisites

• A VPS or dedicated server running EndeavourOS Latest.
• A sudo user.

Step 1: Update your system

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

Step 2: Install required dependencies

Countly requires several dependencies to be installed on your system. Run the following command to install those dependencies:

sudo pacman -S mongodb nginx npm

Step 3: Install Countly Community Edition

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'
};

Step 4: Configure Nginx

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

Step 5: Start Countly

Start Countly using the following command:

npm start

You can now access Countly by navigating to http://your-server-ip/ in your web browser.

Conclusion

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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