If you are hosting a Matomo Web Analytics installation on your Linux server, than you may find it useful to automate the update using a bash script. While Matomo is capable of doing a web based update, we strongly believe in the principle of least privilege. Using this principle ensures tight security, however this comes at the expense of flexibility in terms of updates. Without further ado, below is our bash update script to update Matomo from the command line.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | #!/bin/bash # # Update matomo statistics data. # # cd /var/www cp -r matomo matomo.bkp wget https://builds.matomo.org/matomo.zip unzip -o matomo.zip cd matomo rm *.md LEGALNOTICE LICENSE sed -i '/"LEGALNOTICE"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"LICENSE"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"CHANGELOG.md"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"CONTRIBUTING.md"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"README.md"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"SECURITY.md"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"PRIVACY.md"/d' config/manifest.inc.php sed -i '/"LEGALNOTICE"/d' config/manifest.inc.php chown -R root:root /var/www/matomo chown -R www-data:root /var/www/matomo/tmp chown -R www-data:root /var/www/matomo/matomo.js chmod -R 0644 /var/www/matomo find /var/www/matomo/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; php console core:update --yes cd .. ; rm -r matomo.zip "How to install Matomo.html" |
Stay tuned for our upcoming article WordPress Update Using Linux CLI.