Piwik Analytics Centmin Mod Nginx Vhost Configuration

Been running Piwik Analytics dedicated Linode VPS server for a while now. So sharing my Centmin Mod Nginx vhost configuration with folks.

Installation of Piwik and usage is left to end user as I am not providing any support for that so best to read documentation and FAQ and frequent their support forums

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Piwik Centmin Mod Nginx Vhost

The piwik Nginx vhost - if you want to IP protect admin side of piwik uncomment #allow YOURIPADDRESS; and set your static IP address for your internet connection

Code:

location /piwik {
        allow      127.0.0.1;
        #allow      YOURIPADDRESS;
        deny       all;
        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file /usr/local/nginx/conf/piwik_htpasswd;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /piwik/index.php?$query_string;

        location = /piwik/piwik.js{
                auth_basic off;
                allow all;
        }

        location ~* ^/piwik(.+\.php)$ {
                auth_basic off;
                allow all;
                include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php_piwik.conf;
        }
}

where auth_basic_user_file for HTTP password protection for piwik admin is created via below command in SSH. Be sure to change USERNAME and PASSWORD to your own username and password

Code:

/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /usr/local/nginx/conf/piwik_htpasswd USERNAME PASSWORD

the configuration turns off HTTP password protection just for piwik.js and piwik.php files themselves

The include file for piwik.php at /usr/local/nginx/conf/php_piwik.conf contents is just a modified version of /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf include with a different location match at top and HTTP password protection turned off

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Make a copy of /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf naming it /usr/local/nginx/conf/php_piwik.conf

Code:

cp -a /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf /usr/local/nginx/conf/php_piwik.conf

edit /usr/local/nginx/conf/php_piwik.conf and replace top line

from

Code:

location ~ \.php$ {

to

Code:

location ~* ^/piwik/(.+\.php)$ {
auth_basic off;

 

Just an extra precaution - you can never be too sure in this day and age

 

I have dedicated Fremont, CA Linode 2GB VPS instance for Piwik server for my sites running Centmin Mod LEMP stack

 

???? I don't follow ?

 

Oh i see

I just use both GA + piwik