Bitnami package for Matomo
Bitnami by VMware | 5.1.2-3-r03 on Debian 12Linux/Unix, Debian 12 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Not a great choice for a long term deployment.
What's wrong with this stack. Well, a few versions behind - we are on 3.04 as of this writing. So just upgrade from console - right? Nope - fail.
PHP7 rocks! So why go with PHP 5.5.x? I can keep going and going. Oh, run a system check from the Piwik console - fail. Oh, and you can't run this on a micro instance - sorry! Burn. So much more.. GeoPHP? Where the heck is that?
Why I did give it two stars. Bitnami did have excellent support! So credit where credit is deserved. In fact, if this was a rating on support only I'd give them five stars. It's because I had to reach out to their support several times to get around so many issues. They were very helpful, but wasn't this stack supposed to be turn-key?
Well on the bright side Bitnami did take my client's money for about a week before I build the image from scratch on a micro.
And finally there is hope for Piwik fans that need a low cost stack out of the box. There is another company on AWS MP that makes a 3.04 stack with all the bells and whistles and you can run it on a micro. Just search for it.
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Nothing easier - and saves money too!
This was an awesome alternative to the first time I installed Piwik. First time around, I uploaded the whole application into an EC2 instance and used the Piwik app to create a database instance. While I didn't think that could be much easier, this was about two clicks.
Best of all, because this installs the DB and application on a single EC2 instance, I don't have to pay for a separate RDS service. As an added bonus, it also installs PHPMyAdmin for direct access to the local DB.
First time I've used a BitNami instance, but I'll be back for more!
Piwik installed in few minutes
This AMI was up and running in no time. After starting it the Piwik software could be updated in the AMI without any problem.