Can you confirm you installed Matomo through git, init & updated all submodules, ran composer, and did not have yet a config/config.ini.php? Is this the full error message?

If you don't want to develop on top of Matomo, I recommend to download the latest version from https://matomo.org/download/ btw compared to git.

Hi @tsteur, I can confirm this, but I ran into issues with permissions issues and had to run the sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./*various_dirs* create directories in the tmp directory during setup which may be where this stems from. This was a fresh install of php, mysql, and nginx and they're users ran as their default installed on Ubuntu 18.04 server. For instance, when I run the composer, the new directories' permissions were displayed as question marks. My user wasn't meshing right. I did get up and running, but I'll try it again.

AFAIK there aren't any known issues from our side and I reckon it is indeed just some server configuration. The various_dirs are expected to need write permission, eg also the config directory. The config/config.ini.php is created during the installation. Where are you stuck in the installation process exactly? Does it even load? Otherwise composer should for sure not require any DB configuration.

Hi again.
Went to update and ran into permission issues. Updating under one user and my webserver runs as another unable to read the other user's files. Where are the server user and group permissions documented?
Thank you!

Got it running. If the server setup includes say a user other than the web server user. Mine's matomo and my web server is www-data.

On setup and after updates, in the matomo/tmp directory these commands must be run:

sudo chown matomo:www-data -R .
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;