mindis / analytics

An analytics tracking application written in Node.js

Backend Collector for Client-Side Data

Getting Started

• Install with Node.js package manager npm:

    $ npm install
  

• Configure your collector server HTTP/HTTPS ports and SSL certs by changing HTTP_PORT, HTTPS_PORT, and SSL_OPTS variables at the top of server.js file.

  This configuration step can be skipped for test & dev purposes. By default, the server binds to ports 3000 and 4443 for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. It also uses self-signed certificates for SSL under .ssl/ directory, so we recommend you replace them with real certificates for a secure production solution.

• Start the collector server by typing:

    $ node server.js
  

  If you have configured server ports to standard ports 80 and 443, you'll need to sudo node server.js to start the server as root unless you have rights to bind to privileged ports < 1024

  You should see something similar to:

    Listening to HTTP on port 3000
    Listening to HTTPS on port 4443
  

That's it!