Setting up Google Analytics module for a Drupal subdomain

With independent databases, also configure the subdomain site like your main site. Both need to show the ".domain setting in footer

Depends on how you'd like to track. All sub and main domains in one singe account - use the second selection. Google Docs are very clear... And there is nothing special in drupal

My issue is the same as this post, and #3 didn't clear it up for me.

I have an existing drupal site, www.example.com, which is being successfully tracked by GA. I've just created a new drupal site, a subdomain - blog.example.com - which needs to be tracked.

According to http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSite.html#... the following code needs to be present on both sites:

_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.example.com']);

On the subdomain site, I've configured the GA module to "One domain with multiple subdomains", which is currently the only way to get _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", into the javascript.

Taking a look at the module code (line 233):

<?php
    if ($domain_mode == 1 && count(explode('.', $cookie_domain)) > 2 && !is_numeric(str_replace('.', '', $cookie_domain))) {
      $script .= '_gaq.push(["_setDomainName", ' . drupal_json_encode($cookie_domain) . ']);';
    }
?>

Unfortunately, _setDomainName gets set to $cookie_domain, the value of which on the subdomain is .blog.example.com

However, I expect it to be .example.com as I shouldn't need to change my $cookie_domain to be example.com in settings.php for the subdomain drupal site.

I would suggest the following: keep the current behaviour as the default, but if a user has entered in a value to the "List of top-level domains" textarea then use the first one as the value for _setDomainName

Is that a decent solution? Even better, add a textarea/texbot below the "One domain with multiple subdomains" radio where a user can enter their top level domain.

First of all open your settings.php on both sites and setup your $cookie_domain correctly:

/**
 * Drupal automatically generates a unique session cookie name for each site
 * based on on its full domain name. If you have multiple domains pointing at
 * the same Drupal site, you can either redirect them all to a single domain
 * (see comment in .htaccess), or uncomment the line below and specify their
 * shared base domain. Doing so assures that users remain logged in as they
 * cross between your various domains.
 */
$cookie_domain = 'example.com';

This should fix the issue for both sites.

If you think you need to run both sites in-depended with unique cookies/sessions, set up GA with A single domain (default) and add the _setDomainName line manually in Custom JavaScript code > Code snippet (before).

Thanks hass - #6 did the trick. I set $cookie_domain = "example.com" in the sub-domain site (I didn't change that value on the main site). Then I set the GA tracking option to "One domain with multiple subdomains" at admin/config/system/googleanalytics

I have a question:
If the main website is www.website.com and subdomain is www.sub.website.com, in settings.php on www.sub.website.com the line #$cookie_domain = 'example.com'; i have to set to $cookie_domain = 'website.com'; ? Is that right?

This is my issue: http://drupal.org/node/1832048

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Note for beginners - you may need to allow for "write" capability in the file permissions of settings.php before attempting to edit this file.

Please note that subdomain support is already built into the newer Google "Universal" Analytics and does not require different code. Great article here on Google Analytics filters to track subdomain traffic and make sure that this is working as expected: http://www.wearefine.com/mingle/subdomain-tracking-with-universal-analyt... Also, data may take up to 48 hours to start showing in the Google Analytics dashboard.