I'm in the process of installing the Matomo Analytics platform on my Debian 10 server, running Nginx and using the Cloudflare DNS and CDN. Unfortunately I get a 502 Bad Gateway error when trying to access it, indicating that the error lies with the host.
Following the installation guide of Matomo, I installed the dependencies downloaded the latest release and unzipped it in /var/www:
# wget https://builds.matomo.org/matomo.zip && unzip matomo.zip
Then I copied their Nginx configuration example to /etc/nginx/sites-available, linked it to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and modified the settings to fit my case, as described here:
server {
listen [::]:80; # remove this if you don't want Matomo to be reachable from IPv6
listen 80;
server_name matomo.andy-sb.com;
# Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with a 301 Moved Permanently response.
location / {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
}
server {
listen [::]:443 ssl http2; # remove this if you don't want Matomo to be reachable from IPv6
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name matomo.andy-sb.com; # list all domains Matomo should be reachable from
access_log /var/log/nginx/matomo.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/matomo.error.log;
## uncomment if you want to enable HSTS with 6 months cache
## ATTENTION: Be sure you know the implications of this change (you won't be able to disable HTTPS anymore)
#add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000 always;
## replace with your SSL certificate
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/matomo.andy-sb.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/matomo.andy-sb.com/privkey.pem;
include ssl.conf; # if you want to support older browsers, please read through this file
add_header Referrer-Policy origin always; # make sure outgoing links don't show the URL to the Matomo instance
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
root /var/www/matomo/; # replace with path to your matomo instance
index index.php;
## only allow accessing the following php files
location ~ ^/(index|matomo|piwik|js/index|plugins/HeatmapSessionRecording/configs)\.php {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; # if your Nginx setup doesn't come with a default fastcgi-php config, you can fetch it from https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/conf/fastcgi.conf
#try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404; # protects against CVE-2019-11043. If this line is already included in your snippets/fastcgi-php.conf you can comment it here.
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY ""; # prohibit httpoxy: https://httpoxy.org/
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; #replace with the path to your PHP socket file
#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # uncomment if you are using PHP via TCP sockets (e.g. Docker container)
}
## deny access to all other .php files
location ~* ^.+\.php$ {
deny all;
return 403;
}
## serve all other files normally
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
## disable all access to the following directories
location ~ ^/(config|tmp|core|lang) {
deny all;
return 403; # replace with 404 to not show these directories exist
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
return 403;
}
location ~ js/container_.*_preview\.js$ {
expires off;
add_header Cache-Control 'private, no-cache, no-store';
}
location ~ \.(gif|ico|jpg|png|svg|js|css|htm|html|mp3|mp4|wav|ogg|avi|ttf|eot|woff|woff2|json)$ {
allow all;
## Cache images,CSS,JS and webfonts for an hour
## Increasing the duration may improve the load-time, but may cause old files to show after an Matomo upgrade
expires 1h;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
location ~ ^/(libs|vendor|plugins|misc/user|node_modules) {
deny all;
return 403;
}
## properly display textfiles in root directory
location ~/(.*\.md|LEGALNOTICE|LICENSE) {
default_type text/plain;
}
}
The SSL certificate is valid and running nginx -t does not return any errors, nor does running systemctl restart nginx to restart Nginx. And I have already created an A and AAAA record using Cloudflare DNS.
