AwesomO: Created page with " Options to See If Anyone is visiting your Wiki ==HitCounters== As easy as installing an extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters * Move to your wiki's extensions directory cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions * Download the extension from GIT git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/HitCounters * Enable it in LocalSettings.php by adding the line:

 wfLoadExtension( 'HitCounters' );

* Ru..."

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Created page with " Options to See If Anyone is visiting your Wiki ==HitCounters== As easy as installing an extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters * Move to your wiki's extensions directory <code>cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions</code> * Download the extension from GIT <code>git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/HitCounters</code> * Enable it in LocalSettings.php by adding the line: <pre> wfLoadExtension( 'HitCounters' ); </pre> * Ru..."

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Options to See If Anyone is visiting your Wiki

==HitCounters==

As easy as installing an extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters

* Move to your wiki's extensions directory
<code>cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions</code>
* Download the extension from GIT
<code>git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/HitCounters</code>
* Enable it in LocalSettings.php by adding the line:
<pre>
wfLoadExtension( 'HitCounters' );
</pre>
* Run the MediaWiki update script to create necessary database tables:
<code>php /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php</code>
* Check <b>Special:PopularPages</b>
<code>https://www.completenoobs.com/noobs/Special:PopularPages</code>
* Can add the line in a wiki page to link to PopluarPages
<pre>
{{Special:PopularPages/10}}
</pre>

===Error Warning===
for some reason i had a clash with <b>ContributionScores</b> , i did not take notes on the error, it was trying to use a database entrie that was not avable (this only happened after installing HitCounters), Error only on Main_Page
* Solved:
Commented out all ContributionScores lines in LocalSettings.php, re-ran wiki update <code>php /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php</code>, worked, uncommented all ContributionScores and updated wiki again, and so some reason it worked! now both are running on wiki.

==Google Analytics==

* Extension used:Google Analytics Integration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration

* Requires an Google Account

=== Extension Install ===
* Go to your wiki's extensions directory
<code>cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions</code>
* Download the extension from GIT
<code>git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/googleAnalytics</code>
* This part is done for now, go to Google Analytics Page to create a DataStream For your wiki.

=== Google Account ===
* ADD STREAM > WEB > Enter WEBSITE URL and give the STREAM a name > Click 'CREATE AND CONTINUE' > Click 'Install manually', there you will see your Unique <b>Measurement ID</b> in the javascript
<pre>

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-T9920YJMQ3"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());

gtag('config', 'G-T9920YJMQ3');
</script>
</pre>
* My Unique <b>Measurement ID</b> is: <code>G-T9920YJMQ3</code>
===LocalSettings.php===
* This line is required: <code>require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";</code>
* This Line is where you append your unique <b>Measurement ID</b>: <code>$wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=MEASUREMENT_ID"></script>';</code>

* In this Example my Measurement ID is <code>G-T9920YJMQ3</code>
<pre>
# GoogleAnalyticsAccount
require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";

$wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-T9920YJMQ3"></script>';
</pre>

* Should now all be working, If you now test in Google it should good.

== Analyze Apache Access Logs with Log Analysis Software ==

you already have your apache logs: <code>/var/log/apache2/access.log</code> which you can already read with no app, been having problems with all app's i have been trying, will try again later.

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