Re: Access counters

[Randy Terbush <ra...@dsndata.com>]

> 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

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

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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