After days of struggle, I’ve concluded that the
only way for Matomo to read web server logs,
is to do it on a local server on which you have
full superuser rights.
See:
Log Analytics in Matomo/Piwik - Learn and see how to import server logs
Ronan Chardonneau
Procedure:
Download logs from server via CPanel
On Local Linux/Ubuntu server, import the logs
Although I haven’t tried/tested it yet
Perhaps sometime in the future
It would be a batch process.
Lagged perhaps by a whole month
As I only can only download after month end.
What really bothers me, like so much software and open source,
is the “figure it out yourselves” attitude.
Waste your own time.
So many (error) messages have NOTHING to do with the problem, and
NOTHING to do with the solution.
Why no output message to say how many rows were in the log file?
Even though zero rows were loaded?
Why no scripts to just analyze the file, to give ideas on what the
correct script parameters would be?
Why not 15 clear examples that actually work with correct syntax?
Detailing when you would use one script over another?
Input
script
output
with screen shots
Etc.
Sigh.