Setup Your Database Connection

As part of the MiwoAnalytics installation process, you will be asked for database connection information that will be used by MiwoAnalytics to create its tables and begin logging statistics. Prior to starting the install process you will want to either setup a new database for MiwoAnalytics to use (recommended) or choose an existing database. Either way MiwoAnalytics' installer requires a few pieces of database connection info:

• Database Storage - select "Same as WordPress" if you want to use the same WordPress database where MiwoAnalytics is installed. If you are afraid of the swelling of the database size, then you can select the "External Database".

• Database Host - this is the name of the host on which the database can be accessed. This could be a remote host such as db.yourdomain.com or, if MiwoAnalytics is running on the same host as your database instance you can use localhost.

• Database Username - this is the user account that MiwoAnalytics will use to connect to your database. This database user account must have permission to read and write to the database that you want MijwoAnalytics to use.

• Database Password - this is the password of the database user.

• Database Name - this is the name of the database that MiwoAnalytics should read and write to. This database needs to be created if it does not exist prior to starting the install.

• Database Table Prefix - this is the prefix of tables that database is using.

The MiwoAnalytics installer will create all the tables that it needs using the miwoanalytics_ table prefix.


In this step, if database info is right, the database connection will be succesfully done and you will be redirected to "MiwoAnalytics->Sites" page where you can start adding new sites and analyzing them.