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How to Install Piwik Analytics [Video]
New Video to Learn How To Install Piwik
One of the great things about Piwik, is the power, flexibility and the amount of data you can capture about your visitors. To get the most of out of your Piwik install, it’s important to set up things properly and to be aware of all the features available. While documentation is important, we also felt it would be great to supplement this with video tutorials.
Installing Piwik
The first step in using Piwik is of course learning how to install Piwik properly. To help guide you along in this process, we have produced a video, which will sow you step by step how to download Piwik, how to set-up a database for Piwik, and finally how to install Piwik.
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his wasn’t resolved when I upgraded again to 1.10.1. Piwik seems to operate fine otherwise. Any suggestions?
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Here is the Video Transcript:
Now that you’ve decided to track your website’s statistics with Piwik. You’ll need to get it installed on your server. This video will walk you through the process.
To get started, you’ll need an FTP program, such as FileZilla, your FTP login details, a domain, directory or subdomain that you wish to install Piwik to. Check to make sure you meet the minimum requirements to run Piwik. These are; PHP version 5.1.3 or greater, MySQL version 4.1 or greater. You can read more about Piwk’s minimum requirements on the Piwik requirements page. Check with your host if you’re unsure.
Let’s start by creating a MySQL database. You’ll need to do this through your web host. The MySQL database stores all of your Piwik information, such as logs, processed reports, and other info. Here’s a standard hosting CPanel. You may be using Plesk but the setup is similar. Find the MySQL database icon. and click on it. Give your database a name and create it. Now you’ll need to add a user to your database. Find MySQL users and create a new user. Write down the MySQL database name, the username and the password. Add the user to the database you created, making sure to give the user all permissions.
Download Piwik. Unzip Piwik into a folder on your computer. Open your FTP client, and input your host, username, and password to log in to your server. Make sure you are in binary mode. Locate the folder where you want to upload Piwik. Drag and drop the files to your server. Uploading via FTP will take a few minutes, so if you want to upload Piwik super-fast, you can use SSH access.
Navigate to the location where you installed Piwik. You should see the welcome screen. First of all, Piwik will check to make sure that your server meets the minimum requirements. If it doesn’t, get in touch with your web host and tell them what software is missing. Hopefully, you’ll see a bunch of ticks telling you that you’re good to go. Click next. Add your MySQL database information. The database server is normally localhost. But if that’s incorrect, you’ll be able to find out the database server from your web host. Click next. Piwik will create the database tables.
Now you’ll create your super user. You’ll need these details to log into Piwik for the first time. There is only one super user in each Piwik installation. When you’re logged in as the super user you can carry out administrative tasks such as adding users, changing user permissions and enabling plugins. No other type of user is able to carry out these tasks. Once you have created your super user click next.
Now it’s time to set up your first website. You’ll be able to add more websites once the Piwik installation is complete. As many as you like! Add the websites’ name, URL, and time zone. Click next. Finally, you’ll insert the Piwik tracking code into your website. This should go just before your closing body tag. Most websites have a footer file that is automatically included in all pages. We recommend that you add the Piwik code before the closing body tag. If you’re using a content management system such as Drupal, Joomla, or WordPress, you’ll be able to find an add-on, plugin, or extension which will insert the code into the correct place for you.
Congratulations! You’ve successfully installed Piwik in just a few minutes. Continue to Piwik, log in as the super user and watch your visitors arrive in real time. For more documentation or help, check out the Piwik website at piwik.org.
Chris Says:
Been trying to install piwik all morning long and just keep getting a blank page. I have installed to a subdomain piwik.brydenroad.com (password protected domain). Any thoughts on why the installer does not kick on? PHP 5.2.17 MySQL 5.095 community edition.