How to install Fathom Analytics (website analytics) on Ubuntu

Update Server: apt update && apt upgrade -y

Set hostname: hostnamectl set-hostname ex.example.com

Downloading Fathom: cd /tmp curl -L -O https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/releases/download/v1.2.1/fathom_1.2.1_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin/ -xzf fathom*.tar.gz fathom sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fathom

Configuring and Running Fathom: sudo adduser --system --group --home /opt/fathom fathom cd /opt/fathom sudo -u fathom bash openssl rand --base64 32 nano /opt/fathom/.env paste FATHOM_SERVER_ADDR="127.0.0.1:8080" FATHOM_DATABASE_DRIVER="sqlite3" FATHOM_DATABASE_NAME="fathom.db" FATHOM_SECRET="uXGz2OErWEriUNSBQOcnIsAlnpdciJc0n/uhXizc2ys="

fathom user add --email="your_email" --password="your_password" exit fathom user

Setting Up Fathom as a Systemd Service: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/fathom.service paste [Unit] Description=Fathom Analytics server Requires=network.target After=network.target

[Service] Type=simple User=fathom Group=fathom Restart=always RestartSec=3 WorkingDirectory=/opt/fathom ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/fathom server

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable fathom.service sudo systemctl start fathom sudo systemctl status fathom

Installing Nginx: sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx sudo ufw allow "Nginx Full" sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/fathom.conf paste server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name ex.example.com;

access_log  /var/log/nginx/fathom.access.log;
error_log   /var/log/nginx/fathom.error.log;

location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;

} }

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fathom.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ sudo nginx -t sudo systemctl reload nginx

Access UI: http://ex.example.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcQXL2GtWBk