Re: [Thinkpad] OT: Searching for logging method on personal website

jrace@attglobal.net wrote:

> With ATTGlobal.net's premium e-mail service I also have access to a free
> 10 mb-sized website. However they provide no support at all so I am on
> my own. I can upload files by FTP, create my own file structure etc,
> just like on the fee-based sites I have created and html-coded for.
>
> However the fee-based sites provide me a weekly log of activity (source
> of visitors, files downloaded, files not found etc).
>
> Are there tools I can put on the ATT site to do the same thing? If so
> please point me to the resources I need to study and also summarize briefly
> what is involved so as to lift me sufficiently from my current state of
> complete ignorance as to be able to read them intelligently and then ask
> less stupid questions the next time. I am willing to learn to code, or
> recode from canned scripts, in whatever language it takes.
>
> Using <http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats?> I have verified that
> the site <http://pws.prserv.net> is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) on AIX.
>
> Thanks for all help.
>
> Jeffrey Race

That type of log information comes from data generated by the web
server. You can't add any tool or utility to acquire that data if your
web hosting provider doesn't allow access to those log files. If your
provider won't give you access to those files then you're SOL.

I believe there are some free web hosts out there that do offer log
access. It's been a while since I've helped anyone with that type of
research so I don't recall the names. Do some Yahoo/Google searching
for 'free web hosting' and you should be able to find an alternative.

Alternatively, perhaps it would be worth calling tech support for your
current provider and just ask them if there's a way for you to get web
logs for your site. This is pretty unlikely if your URL is something
like www.theirdomainname.net/~jrace. If you have your own domain name
hosted through them then that is more likely to get you your own logs.

HTH,
Rob

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Received on Sun Oct 5 10:27:33 2003