Install fails with nginx

[matomo-org]

Install fails with nginx

[aureq]

This will be part of the 3.6.0 onward.
merged #84

[Dreamsorcerer]

Actually, the URLs are wrong all over the place, the README links are wrong here as well: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-package

[Dreamsorcerer]

OK, taking a little look into your postinst script, I see you are testing if the apache config dir exists. So, it looks like this is clashing with the php-fpm packgage, which installs /etc/apache2/conf-available/php7.0-fpm.conf regardless of whether Apache is installed or not.

Manually deleting the directory before installing Matomo provides a workaround.

[aureq]

@Dreamsorcerer at this point, nginx is not support. Also having more information about your environment would help. Finally, I'd be interested to see your nginx configuration.

[Dreamsorcerer]

For this bug, the issue is not setting up nginx, I'm not expecting you to support nginx (and I'd rather customise the server config myself anyway).

But, I expect the package not to error and fail to install just because I don't have Apache installed. As I mentioned in the previous comment, this seems to be a clash with the php-fpm package which installs an Apache config file regardless of whether Apache is installed or not.

Installing this package then checks if the Apache config directory exists (which it does thanks to php-fpm), and installs another config. The error happens when it tries to run a2enconf, which does not exist, because apache2 is not installed.

I'm sure there are a number of possible solutions here, such as checking if a2enconf is available, before running it, or being more conservative and not running a2enconf at all, and just let the user enable the config once they're happy with it, etc.

[Findus23]

In case you are interested:
I have completely rewritten the official Matomo nginx config:
matomo-org/matomo-nginx#43

If you have feedback, just comment there.

[Dreamsorcerer]

But, as per #69 , I don't see how that config can work. If I set the root to /var/www/mysite/ I get 'File not found' (because that directory is empty). While setting it to /usr/share/matomo/ gives me errors about Matomo not being able to write to /usr/share/matomo/. I'm still completely clueless as to how anybody is supposed to configure a server to run Matomo from this Debian package.

[mackuba]

I had the same problem, I've added a check if a2enconf exists in the post-install script before it tries to configure Apache: #84

[mackuba]

A temporary workaround is to create an empty script at /usr/bin/a2enconf that just includes #!/bin/bash and nothing else.