What if Matomo is installed seperadly?

  • Resolved collapsing_os

    (@collapsing_os)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dear all, as WP-Matomo Integration is outdated and became a potential risk for every WordPress installation, I’ve checked out this new plugin. Well done, folks.

    But my Matomo installation does NOT run under the path that is programmed. Since I installed PIWIK back in the days, it has its own path and own database. Let’s say:

    • WordPress runs under DOMAIN/wordpress
    • Matomo runs under DOMAIN/matomo

    Where do I configure it? In the old plugin, it was no problem. But in the new one? Can you help me with it? In the meantime to prevent a security risk, I replaced the old integration plugin with a simple Matomo Tracking Code inserter. But it would a pleasure to work with a full Matomo plugin again.

    Thanks.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support varunmatomo

    (@varunmatomo)

    Hi @collapsing_os WP-piwik is just a connector. It won’t be updated as there are a lot of new features.

    What you are trying to do is not possible, for many reasons:

    • the plugin customises many features such as the login, the timezone, … by using a custom instance into your WordPress, you would not have theses features, which are a must have.
    • The plugin loads a custom WordPress module which customise some Matomo features to the WordPress one.

    So without these two components, it would be only a dedicated Matomo instance stored in a WordPress website.
    The URLs in the plugin use the WordPress APIs: so expect it in the plugin folders.

    The only solution would be:

    • Install the plugin version which matches your current Matomo version
    • Export your database and prefix in your export, your table names with %wordpress_prefix%_matomo
    • Load this export into your wordpress db
    • matches the side ids from your Matomo instance to the wordpress ones (require SQL knowledge)

    Hope this helps clarify your concerns.

    Regards,

    Thread Starter collapsing_os

    (@collapsing_os)

    Well, this is not helpful at all as I installed Matomo separately for good reasons. The most important reason is to reduce the load on the database.

    “The only solution” unfortunately does not suit my needs. That’s why I switched over to a simple connector to my existing Matomo instance.

    Plugin Support varunmatomo

    (@varunmatomo)

    Apologies for the inconvenience caused due to this. If you manage to find another resolution or work around please keep us updated. If you believe there is a feature missing please create a feature request?on our issue tracker here:
    https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues

    This is so we have it noted down for the team to look into when possible. 

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