AWS Matomo Setup

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Matoma Setup on AWS

matomo-aws.md

Setting up Matomo on AWS

• Installed PHP 7.x
  • Remove installed php
    • sudo yum remove php*
  • Install extra repos:
    • sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
    • sudo rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
    • sudo rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
  • Install ncurses library
    • sudo yum install ncurses-compat-libs
  • Install PHP
    • sudo yum install php php-mbstring php-dom php-mysqli --enablerepo=remi-php74 --disablerepo=amzn2-core
• Installed MariaDB
  • Remove old mariadb
    • sudo yum shell
    • $ remove mariadb-libs
    • $ run
  • Create File
    • sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/maria.repo
    • Add the following contents to the file and save:

        [mariadb]
        name = MariaDB
        baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
        gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
        gpgcheck=1
      

  • Then run the following commands:
    • sudo yum install -y MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
    • sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
  • Secured mariadb install:
    • sudo mysql_secure_installation
• Downloaded Latest Matomo: https://matomo.org/docs/installation/
  • wget https://builds.matomo.org/matomo.zip && unzip matomo.zip
  • Or Download zip and SFTP to server
• Install httpd
• Configure Matomo settings in /var/www/html/
• Configure httpd settings in /etc/httpd/conf.d/

Also had to do small hack to get php-gd installed:

• sudo yum install php74-php-gd.x86_64
• sudo yum remove php74-php-gd.x86_64
• sudo yum install php-gd --enablerepo=remi-php74 --disablerepo=amzn2-core

TODO

• Update PHP to newer version
• Add root user password