How to Install Countly Community Edition on NetBSD

Countly is an open-source analytics platform that can help you track your user behavior, measure your marketing campaigns, and get insights into your digital products. If you are looking to install Countly on your NetBSD server, you've come to the right place! In this tutorial, we will guide you step-by-step through the process of installing Countly's Community Edition on NetBSD using a MongoDB database.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following requirements:

• A NetBSD-based server that is connected to the internet
• An SSH client such as OpenSSH installed on your local machine
• The superuser/root access to your NetBSD server
• Basic knowledge of using the command-line interface

Step 1 - Install Required Packages

The first step is to install the required software packages that Countly needs to run. Open your terminal or SSH client and log in to your NetBSD server as a root user.

$ ssh root@your_server_ip

Once you are logged in, update the package repository and install the necessary packages:

# pkgin update
# pkgin install mongodb py27-pip gcc py27-gunicorn

Step 2 - Install Countly

Next, we will download and install Countly. Go to the Countly download page to get the latest version of Countly's Community Edition. In this example, we will use version 20.11.

# wget https://github.com/Countly/countly-server/archive/20.11.tar.gz
# tar -xvf 20.11.tar.gz
# cd countly-server-20.11
# mv frontend/express/config.example.js frontend/express/config.js
# mv api/config.example.js api/config.js
# pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3 - Configure Countly

Now you need to configure the Countly application by editing the configuration files located in frontend/express and api.

# vi frontend/express/config.js

Change the following configuration accordingly:

  ...
  "port": 6001, // Port for web interface

  "plugins": {},

  "mongodb": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 27017,
    "db": "countly",
    "max_pool_size": 500
  },

  "api": {
    "workers": 0,
    "timeout": 120000,
    "workersCommTimeout": 60000,
    "max_processing": 1000
  },

  "path": "",
  "logging": {
    "level": "info",
    "node": false,
    "levelMongo": "warning",
    "levelConsole": "info",
    "colors": true
  },
  ...

Save and exit the file.

Now edit the api/config.js file.

# vi api/config.js

Change the following configuration accordingly:

  ...
  "mongodb": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 27017,
    "db": "countly",
    "max_pool_size": 500
  },

  "use_intercom": false,

  "security": {
    "salt_rounds": 10,
    "password_min": 8,
    "hmac": true,
    "certificate": true,
    "password_max_tries": 3,
    "password_lock_timeout": 1800,
    "login_lock_timeout": 1800,
    "login_max_tries": 3
  },

  "api": {
    "default_timezone": "GMT",
    "session_timeout": 3600000,
    "max_returned_docs": 1000,
    "return_query": false,
    "safety_period": 3600,
    "path": "",
    "app_timeout": 3600,
    "log": {
      "api": "warning",
      "app": "info",
      "db": "error",
      "worker": "info"
    }
  },
  ...

Save and exit the file.

Step 4 - Start MongoDB

You need to start the MongoDB daemon by executing the command:

# /usr/pkg/bin/mongod &

Step 5 - Start Countly

We're almost done! Start Countly with the following command:

# cd /root/countly-server-20.11/ && /usr/pkg/bin/gunicorn -w 2 'countly.wsgi:app()' -b 0.0.0.0:6001 --daemon

Now you should be able to access the Countly web interface by pointing your web browser to http://your_server_ip:6001. Congratulations!

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Countly's Community Edition on your NetBSD server using a MongoDB database. We hope that this tutorial was helpful and that you can now use Countly to measure and improve your digital products. Good luck!