How to Install Countly Community Edition on FreeBSD Latest

Countly Community Edition is an open-source analytics platform that allows you to track user interactions with your application or website. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Countly Community Edition on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation of Countly Community Edition, you need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

• FreeBSD Latest is installed
• 1GB of RAM is available
• Python 2.7 or later is installed
• Internet connectivity

Step 1: Install Dependencies

The first step is to install the necessary dependencies required to run Countly. Run the following command to update the package repository and install the necessary packages:

sudo pkg update && sudo pkg install -y mongodb34 git npm cairo graphicsmagick \
    libxml2 libjson-c libxslt autoconf automake libtool pkgconf \
    libpng libjpeg-turbo freetype2 ttf-freefont

Step 2: Download and Install Countly

1. Next, download Countly from GitHub. You can do this using the git command:

git clone https://github.com/Countly/countly-server.git

2. Navigate into the downloaded Countly directory:

cd countly-server

3. Use npm to install the necessary dependencies:

npm install

Step 3: Configure Countly

1. Create a new configuration file by running:

cp ./frontend/express/config.sample.js ./frontend/express/config.js

2. Edit the configuration file config.js and set the following parameters:

module.exports = {
  server: {
    port: 6001, // the port to run Countly on
    mongodb: {
      host: 'localhost', // the hostname where MongoDB is running
      database: 'countly', // the name of the MongoDB database
      port: 27017, // the port MongoDB is running on
      max_pool_size: 500 // maximum number of connections to Mongo
    },
    api: {
      workers: 0 // the number of worker processes
    }
  }
}

3. Save and close the config.js file.

Step 4: Start Countly

1. Run the following command to start Countly:

npm run start

2. You can now access Countly by navigating to http://<your-server-ip>:6001 in a web browser.

Conclusion

Countly Community Edition is now installed and configured on FreeBSD Latest. You can use this analytics platform to start tracking user interactions with your application or website.

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