Piwik/Matomo for your Cloud

Track Nextcloud users with Piwik/Matomo.

Requirements

• Nextcloud >= 11
• Working Piwik/Matomo installation (tested with 2.14.3)
• Empty custom variable slots on index 1, 2 and 3

What will be tracked?

• Normal Piwik/Matomo stuff (url, page title, browser, …)
• User ID aka Nextcloud user
• App in first custom variable
• Share ID in second custom variable (index.php/s/SHARE_ID)
• Share ID + folder or file name in third custom variable

What will not be tracked?

• Download
• Outlink

Installation

• Download and extract to CLOUD_DIR/apps/piwik/
• Enable app
• If needed create a new site in your Piwik/Matomo installation
• Insert Piwik/Matomo site id and url on the cloud admin page (e.g. site id: 1, url: //domain.tld/piwik/)
• If Piwik/Matomo is hosted under a different domain as your cloud you maybe need to use one of two possible proxy methods:
  • Add RewriteRule "^piwik/(.*)$" "http://piwik.tld/$1" [P] to your .htaccess
  • a2enmod proxy and add ProxyPass /piwik/ http://piwik.tld/ to your apache VirtualHost section