How to Install Plausible (Web Analytics Tool) on Ubuntu

Update Server: apt update && apt upgrade -y

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

Install Docker: sudo apt-get install
ca-certificates
curl
gnupg
lsb-release

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

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echo
"deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list ] /dev/null

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose

Installing Plausible Analytics: cd /opt sudo git clone https://github.com/plausible/hosting plausible cd plausible openssl rand 64 | base64 -w 0 ; echo sudo nano plausible-conf.env replace ADMIN_USER_EMAIL=email ADMIN_USER_NAME=admin ADMIN_USER_PWD=password BASE_URL=https://plausible.ca-mobilealertcenter.info SECRET_KEY_BASE=replace_with_above_output

sudo nano docker-compose.yml update ports: - 127.0.0.1:8000:8000

sudo docker-compose up --detach

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

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

location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

} }

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

Access UI: http://ex.example.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhJJ8mU8a-M