Matomo Analytics

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Is there any other (more direct) way of integrating Matomo with Discourse, instead of using the plugin?

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How’s the cron of root — there should be something like this:

*/12 * * * * /var/www/matomo/console core:archive --url=https://<home-of-matomo>/ > /var/log/apache2/matomo-archieve

(Of course time and logging are personal preferences, and path can and will be different)

But the sad story is this start to be out of scope of Discourse — your forum if sending data and Matomo gets it, is just doesn’t show it to you.

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I’m not sure where the cron settings are, in this instance.
Also, as i already have other websites being properly tracked, i would assume that Matomo’s general config is alright.

Yeah, will head over to Matomo’s forum as well.
Thanks for your inputs!

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If it can track everything else then the issue is not cron. Or Matomo per se.

What happends if you stop using CSP, letting it only log?

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If i disable CSP, i’m getting the same results.

Same logs, no error, no data.

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Any idea about this?

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No idea, but you can give a try — put the code snippet on header and give a try.

Otherwise I have only one trick left: take a (coffee)break and double and triple check your settings in the component. It is so easy to not see obvious error, like wrong ID or misspelled host.

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This should REALLY be added to the main instructions as it seems like a requirement UNLESS one were running Matomo on the same server as Discourse which I would think would be very rare.

Also in my case my Matomo is on another server maintained by another group and I’ve got a URL for it like https://subdomain.domain.com/subfolder/piwik.js and in this case it’s not super clear to me what domain pattern I should use in content_security_policy_script_src so I for the moment am just listing out multiple domains in that setting line by line which I don’t feel great about like:

https://subdomain.domain.com
https://subdomain.domain.com/
https://subdomain.domain.com/subfolder
https://subdomain.domain.com/subfolder/
https://subdomain.domain.com/subfolder/piwik.js
https://subdomain.domain.com/subfolder/piwik.php

…and then it lets you specify an order with an Arrow option for sorting up and down… which is all great - who doesn’t like options… but in this case when trying to configure something to work probably clear concise direction is most valuable.

The only thing I AM confident of is I did indeed include https:// before my URL which I’m sure is good as the cert is good, so is the connection, you said it in your post and content_security_policy_script_src instructions denote it under it’s field as well…

Is anyone super confident to tell me what domain pattern I should really use based on the context I provided above? Thanks in advance.

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When I try to add my Matomo host URL (https://analytics.cosmos.coop) to the content_security_policy_script_src field, I receive the following error:

content_security_policy_script_src: Value must be either ‘unsafe-eval’ or ‘wasm-unsafe-eval’, or in the form ‘-’ where supported hash algorithms are sha256, sha384 or sha512. Ensure that your input is wrapped in single quotation marks.

Any idea what could be wrong here?

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Did you wrap the URL in '?

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Discourse now uses a “Strict Dynamic” CSP, so adding individual URLs is no longer necessary (or possible). More info here:

I’ll remove that section from the OP here. Thanks for the heads-up @madrush

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Thank you! I’ve got it working now.

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This theme component is working great. Thanks to the contributors!

Is anybody using Goals or other advanced features of Matomo?

Ideas for improvement:

  • User groups (including custom groups) could be tracked through Matomo Custom Variables.

  • Allow to send custom Events from Discourse to Matomo. That would be useful for connecting to Goals.