- From: Terra Goodnight <terra@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:53:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WLemke8503@aol.com
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
On Mon, 10 Jul 1995 WLemke8503@aol.com wrote: > I would like to set up a counter to keep track of how many people have > visited my home page. I have seen others use this, and am wondering how it > is done. Can you please let me know how to do this, or tell me where > I can find this information? Find the logs directory for your web server (usually for NCSA it is /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/) in it, you should find a file called access_log which you can grep for the filename you wish to get access stats for. For instance, if my files are all in the /terra directory at grep /terra /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/access_log | more (pipe through more since there will be many screenfuls) or grep /terra /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/access_log > filename (saves it as a file which is easier to dig through since the list is long). usually the log file is massive and the grep will take a few minutes to complete, so if it seems like it's hanging, just wait a bit and you'll get your prompt back. There are other CGI packages that will run and make a much nicer output display, but they get their information from that same logfile. One that I use is Matt Kruse's access.pl at http://cs.sau.edu/util/access.html -Terra
Received on Tuesday, 11 July 1995 00:21:13 UTC