Create new subdomain or port

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#1

Hi,

This is my first time using easyengine. Please help me how to create another htdocs folder with port naming, so the website can be accessed with name example.com:1234 ? I want to setup piwik on my host.

Thanks

#2

First of all, welcome to the rtCommunity Support area. Always good to see new people in this area.

Secondly, while it would be nice, I don’t believe the current Easy Engine version directly supports the installation of PIWIK, via its easy-to-use, built-in commands, though I do believe it can be done.

PIWIK’s FAQ section (http://bamajr.us/what-is-piwik) states:

Piwik is PHP MySQL software

…which is perfect, because Easy Engine can create a PHP/MySQL environment, for you.

You’ll also want to read:

  1. http://bamajr.us/Installing-piwik and,
  2. http://bamajr.us/piwik-minimum-system-requirements

The easiest way to explain how to make PIWIK available, would be to suggest that you install it as a separate website, with its own domain or subdomain. The last time I checked, PIWIK’s minimum requirements are met with the Easy Engine PHP+MySQL installation, so you should be able to proceed to installing the PHP+MySQL environment. To read about how to do this, please check out this article http://docs.rtcamp.com/easyengine/commands/site/create/ and pay special attention to the section on PHP+MySQL Website with the following command:

ee site create example.com --mysql

…keeping in mind example.com could also be site1.example.com or piwik.example.com and so on.

Next, you’ll want to make sure all the PHP modules PIWIK suggests are installed by running:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl php5-gd php5-cli php5-geoip

Once all the PHP modules have been installed (or confirmed as installed) navigate to the htdocs directory of this newly created PHP+MySQL site to start your PIWIK installation. I believe this can be done by typing the following command:

wget http://builds.piwik.org/piwik.zip && unzip piwik.zip

…though I’m not sure whether this needs to be run as sudo, or not. If so, simply modify the command to:

sudo wget http://builds.piwik.org/piwik.zip && unzip piwik.zip

Once all this has been done, you should be able to continue through The 5-minute Piwik Installation (from the links provided above).

WARNING: The instructions I’ve provided above are NOT official instructions, provided by rtCamp. They are not a guarantee that PIWIK will, in fact work, and supporting a PIWIK installation is certainly not support priority for rtCamp.

That being said, I would strongly caution you about performing tasks on your NGINX Web Server manually. Easy Engine is far more than adequate in its ability to automate the initial set-up process(es) for you. There really isn’t much need to manually create another htdocs directory, when Easy Engine will create most directories for you.

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