Hello.
I am a complete noob when it comes to self-hosting. I have a small VPS on which I somehow mysteriously managed to run Plausible Analytics and FreshRSS. Now I’ve discovered YunoHost, and I am thinking of switching to it, but I’ve found that it doesn’t support Plausible Analytics, which I would miss.
Does anyone have any experience of how to roll them out with YunoHost? Has anyone tried this, please? And do you possibly have any advice on how to do it?
Thanks a lot.
Hi Progus,
Welcome to the forums!
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To give people trying to help you a start, you could give them a link to the software you discuss.
It seems they’re Free Software, AGPL-3 no less (although a part is MIT). That means there at least is no ‘legal’ barrier to have Plausible in the app catalog.
What OS is your VPS running? If it is, by coincidence, Debian 12, you can add Yunohost on top of it. Otherwise, as Yunohost is plain Debian with helpful extra’s, you can install Yunohost and afterwards install Plausible Analytics.
One way or the other, the web interface for Plausible Analytics is not known to Yunohost security if it is manually installed. You’ll need to use the “Webapp” app to get access to the Plausible Analytics interface.
In the mean time, there is a number of alternative analytics apps available that may help you out. Plausible Analytics has a blog post about Matomo
Thanks for your response.
Sorry, my bad. Thanks for correction.
I think it runs on Ubuntu 20.04 or something like that. 100% it is Ubuntu, but I’m not sure which version.
So, I think I have to first install YunoHost and then somehow install Plausible. If I remember correctly, Plausible is installed in Docker (it’s more than a year that I did that, so I’m not 100% sure what I did).
You mean - I install Plausible and then connect it somehow to the YunoHost administration?
Thank you.
YunoHost requires debian 12 to install.
You could have shared the install instructions you followed to help. But from my understanding, there is a CE version that can be installed using docker. Yunohost doesn’t rely on docker to deploy apps, so I fear that its installation won’t be straightforward, though there are a few apps published in docker format that are available in the yunohost catalog.
You can also install docker alongside yunohost and install the redirect app.
Since you are discovering yunohost, I would recommend you to try it in a local vm for a while to understand how it works and read a lot on the forum, there are plenty of interesting threads here that will help you. And of course, you are welcome to ask more questions.
I installed it more than year ago, so I’m not sure which instructions I followed. But now, based on information that YunoHost requeres Debian 12, I found this:
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-plausible-analytics-on-debian-12/
Sadly, I’m not sure if it will work with YunoHost. 