theiconic php-ga localhost vhost page views doesn't show up - php

Question

Okay, so I setup a google analytics account for testing purposes. I have to work on some stuff and I'm testing things locally before pushing it to our live environment. Since the tracking has to be done if Javascript is off we use the php-ga-measurement-protocol library from theiconic.
This is the code I use:
$this->analytics = new Analytics(true, false);
$this->analytics->setClientId(filter_input(INPUT_COOKIE, 'gaClientId', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING))
->setDebug(true)
->setDocumentHostName(getenv('HTTP_HOST'))
->setDocumentLocationUrl(getenv('HTTP_HOST') . getenv('REQUEST_URI'))
->setDocumentPath(getenv('REQUEST_URI'))
->setIpOverride(getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP') ?: getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') ?: getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'))
->setProtocolVersion('1')
->setTrackingId({TRACKING_ID})
->setUserAgentOverride(getenv('HTTP_USER_AGENT'))
->setUserLanguage(strtolower(substr(getenv('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'), 0, 5)));
The URL generated would look something like:
https://www.google-analytics.com/debug/collect?cid=g9m2nds3980dki4ia2rcivtjn3&dh={WEBSITE.LOCAL}&dl={WEBSITE.LOCAL}%2F&dp=%2F&uip=127.0.0.1&v=1&tid=|||&ua=Mozilla%2F5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%206.3%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit%2F537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome%2F74.0.3729.157%20Safari%2F537.36&ul=en-us&dt={DOCUMENT_TITLE}
This is the response:
{
"hitParsingResult": [ {
"valid": true,
"parserMessage": [ ],
"hit": "/debug/collect?cid=g9m2nds3980dki4ia2rcivtjn3\u0026dh={WEBSITE.LOCAL}\u0026dl={WEBSITE.LOCAL}%2F\u0026dp=%2F\u0026uip=127.0.0.1\u0026v=1\u0026tid=|||\u0026ua=Mozilla%2F5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%206.3%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit%2F537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome%2F74.0.3729.157%20Safari%2F537.36\u0026ul=en-us\u0026dt={DOCUMENT_TITLE}?_anon_uip=127.0.0.0"
} ],
"parserMessage": [ {
"messageType": "INFO",
"description": "Found 1 hit in the request."
} ]
}
However, going to my Google Analytics page, it doesn't show up an active user and I can't figure out why.

Answer 1

Isn't that the intended consequence of sending the hit with debug mode "on"? To validate that the hit is correctly formed, but not to actually record the hit and impact reporting? From your own code:
->setDebug(true)
"hit": "/debug/collect?cid=g9m2nd..."
From the Google hit validation documentation on the /debug/collect endpoint:
Important: hits sent to the Measurement Protocol Validation Server will not show up in reports. They are for debugging only.