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Re: Access counters
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix

cs1slh@stoat.shef.ac.uk (S L Herbert) wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I'm looking to add automatic access counters to NCSA httpd v1.4. It's
>a feature which gets requested so much I'm surprised that people are still
>using CGI and server includes to do it.
>
> What I've got at the minute tags on the end of every "text/html" :
>
> <P>This page has been visited %ld time(s)<HR>
>
> You can <!--#echo var="COUNT" --> if you want the counter figure - this
>ensures that the counter text isn't automatically displayed either.

This sounds like an easy thing to get into Apache... just include the
source of the counter program that's running on hyperreal right now.

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Rob Hartill
http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/
Re: Access counters [ In reply to ]
> comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
>
> cs1slh@stoat.shef.ac.uk (S L Herbert) wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking to add automatic access counters to NCSA httpd v1.4. It's
> >a feature which gets requested so much I'm surprised that people are still
> >using CGI and server includes to do it.
> >
> > What I've got at the minute tags on the end of every "text/html" :
> >
> > <P>This page has been visited %ld time(s)<HR>
> >
> > You can <!--#echo var="COUNT" --> if you want the counter figure - this
> >ensures that the counter text isn't automatically displayed either.
>
> This sounds like an easy thing to get into Apache... just include the
> source of the counter program that's running on hyperreal right now.

We might want to re-engineer that code as there might be a copyright
problem with the stuff I put over there.
Re: Access counters [ In reply to ]
On Thu, 11 May 1995, Randy Terbush wrote:
> > cs1slh@stoat.shef.ac.uk (S L Herbert) wrote:
> > > You can <!--#echo var="COUNT" --> if you want the counter figure - this
> > >ensures that the counter text isn't automatically displayed either.
> >
> > This sounds like an easy thing to get into Apache... just include the
> > source of the counter program that's running on hyperreal right now.
>
> We might want to re-engineer that code as there might be a copyright
> problem with the stuff I put over there.

Let's reengineer it. The file that keeps count should be a DBM file and
its location should be established in httpd.conf, and that info should be
sent via (yet another!) CGI variable, ACCESS_COUNT or something.

Brian

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