umami

Umami Self Hosted Analytics Cloud VPS ☁ Configuration 🔧

Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

Install and Setup Umami on Ubuntu Cloud VPS Server ⚙

Requirements

• Cloud VPS
• OS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Node.JS LTS Version
• MYSQL 8
• Nginx + Reverse Proxy
• Certbot for Free SSL
• Systemd Service for Run the APP Permanently
• Git for Clone and Update the Software

installation

• install and setup umami

cd /var/www/
git clone https://github.com/mikecao/umami.git
cd umami
npm install

• Create database tables

cd /var/www/umami
mysql -u username -p databasename < sql/schema.mysql.sql

• Create .env file for database connection and Hash salt in the umami cloned/downloaded Folder /var/www/umami

touch .env
nano .env

DB_USER=username
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_NAME=databasename
DATABASE_URL=mysql://${DB_USER}:${DB_PASSWORD}@${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/${DB_NAME}

HASH_SALT=somerandomstring

Generate Hash Salt from - https://bitwarden.com/password-generator/

• Build the Package

npm run build

• Start the server

npm start

• Bash script for start the app via systemd service - https://github.com/mskian/umami-conf/blob/master/start.sh
• create systemd service for Run the App forever - https://github.com/mskian/umami-conf/blob/master/stats.service
• Nginx + Reverse Proxy + SSL Setup https://github.com/mskian/umami-conf/blob/master/stats.conf

Firewall

if you enabled the ufw on your Server then allow the umami port and MYSQL port

ufw allow 3000
ufw allow mysql
ufw reload

LICENSE

MIT