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Self-hosted Cydia Repo Download Counter

How to Add a Download Counter to A Self-Hosted Cydia Repo

This is a fork of kirb's repo download counter, only that this one works and that one doesn't.

Installation

  1. Click the download link at the top of the gist page to save these files to your machine.
  2. Unzip them and open counter.php and nginx.conf in your favorite non-Notepad text editor.
  3. In counter.php, scroll down to the line that says $db = mysqli_connect( ... and change the parameters to the ones you use to connect to MySQL.
  4. If your database doesn't use the UTF-8 charset, change the UTF8 in the if (!mysqli_set_charset($db, "UTF8")) ... line to the appropriate value.
  5. Go down to the if (!mysqli_select_db($db, "myrepodb")) ... line and change myrepodb to the name of your database.
  6. Run the downloads.sql file i