Umami is a self-hosted web analytics tool that helps you to understand your website’s traffic data in real time. Here is the step-by-step guide to install Umami on Manjaro.
Before you proceed with the installation process, make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:
The first step is to download the latest release of Umami. You can download it from the official Umami website. Open up your terminal and use the following command to download Umami:
wget https://github.com/mikecao/umami/releases/latest/download/umami.zip
Once the download is complete, extract the zip file using the following command:
unzip umami.zip
Next, you need to create a new MySQL database for Umami. Log in to the MySQL shell with the following command:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted.
Create a new database with the following command:
CREATE DATABASE umami;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the database with the following command:
GRANT ALL ON umami.* TO 'umamiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword';
Replace newpassword with a secure password of your choice.
Finally, exit the MySQL shell with the following command:
exit
In this step, you need to configure Apache to host Umami. Create a new Apache configuration file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/umami.conf
Add the following content to the umami.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/umami
<Directory /path/to/umami>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/umami_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/umami_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace example.com with your domain name, and /path/to/umami with the path to your extracted Umami directory.
Save and close the file.
To run Umami, you need to install some PHP dependencies. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -S php-gd php-intl php-pgsql php-sqlite php-zip
In this step, you need to create a .env configuration file and set up Umami.
Copy the .env.example file to create a new .env file:
cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file using your preferred text editor and edit the following configuration options:
APP_ENV=production
APP_URL=http://example.com
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=umami
DB_USERNAME=umamiuser
DB_PASSWORD=newpassword
Set APP_URL to your domain name, and replace the DB_* configuration options with your MySQL credentials.
Save and close the .env file.
Next, run the database migrations with the following command:
php artisan migrate --force
The final step is to start Umami. Run the following command:
php artisan serve
This will start Umami on port 8000. You can now access Umami by visiting http://example.com:8000 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have installed Umami on Manjaro. You can now start analyzing your website’s traffic data in real time.
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