Countly is an open-source platform that helps you track and analyze user behavior in your mobile and web applications. Countly Community Edition is a free and open-source version of Countly that you can install on your own server.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Countly Community Edition on a Fedora Server Latest. We will use MongoDB as the database and Nginx as the web server.
Before you begin, it's important to update the server. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo dnf update
We will use MongoDB as the database for Countly. To install MongoDB, run the following command:
sudo dnf install mongodb-server
After the installation is complete, start and enable MongoDB:
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod
Countly requires Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager) to run. To install Node.js and NPM, run the following command:
sudo dnf install nodejs
You can verify the installation by checking the version of Node.js and NPM:
node -v
npm -v
We will now download and install Countly Community Edition. Run the following command to download the latest version of Countly:
curl -LOk https://github.com/Countly/countly-server/archive/master.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file:
tar -zxvf master.tar.gz
Move Countly to the /opt directory:
sudo mv countly-server-master /opt/countly
Navigate to the /opt/countly directory:
cd /opt/countly
Install Countly dependencies:
npm install --production
We will now configure Countly. Navigate to the /opt/countly/ directory and create a configuration file:
cd /opt/countly/
cp api/config.sample.js api/config.js
Open the config.js file in a text editor:
nano api/config.js
Update the following fields:
// server
api: {
workers: 0, // set to 0 to use all CPU cores
port: 6001,
host: 'localhost',
safe: true
},
// database
/*
* Common query options: useNewUrlParser, useUnifiedTopology, autoIndex, replicaSet, loggerLevel,
* reconnectTries, reconnectInterval, poolSize, keepAlive, keepAliveInitialDelayMillis, connectTimeoutMS,
* socketTimeoutMS, w, wtimeout, j, forceServerObjectId, useCreateIndex, useFindAndModify
*/
db: {
/* Set your MongoDb connection string */
mongodb: {
server_url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/countly',
max_pool_size: 5000
},
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+X, followed by Y and Enter.
We will use Nginx as the web server for Countly. To install Nginx, run the following command:
sudo dnf install nginx
Create a new Nginx configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/countly.conf
Add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; # replace with your domain name
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost: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;
}
}
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+X, followed by Y and Enter.
Test the Nginx configuration:
sudo nginx -t
If the configuration is valid, start and enable Nginx:
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
We will now start Countly. Navigate to the /opt/countly directory:
cd /opt/countly
Start Countly:
sudo npm start
You can now access Countly by visiting your domain name or subdomain in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Countly Community Edition on a Fedora Server Latest. You can now track and analyze user behavior in your mobile and web applications.
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