How to setup Matomo with MariaDB on Docker

$ docker run --name matomo-mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mariadb:latest

$ docker run -d --link matomo-mariadb:db -p 8089:80 -p 3306:3306 matomo

This will spin up a Matomo instance on MariaDB running on the default port 3306. You can then access the Matomo instance to continue the installation by navigation to your hostname:3306. E.g. if you’re running this on your VPS it will be your http://<VPS IP>:3306

http://localhost:3306 if you’re on your local dev machine.

The above will not persist your data, in order to do that you need to use volumes on Docker. So if you plan on restarting your Docker container (likely) then you should use volumes. Otherwise when you restart the Docker container you’ll have to reinstall the Matomo instance.

docker volume create matomo-vol
docker run -d --link matomo-mariadb:db -p 8089:80 -p 3306:3306 -v matomo-vol:/var/www/html matomo