<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 7:27 PM, E Frank Ball III <<a href="mailto:frankb@frankb.us">frankb@frankb.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Jack Smith wrote:<br> > I have my own webpage in html on my server at home and would like to monitor<br> > its use (if any). Something in the system log would be fine, so would most
<br> > anything else. "You are the nth user" is dorky but I suppose I would do<br> > that if there's nothing better. :-) Any idea where I should start looking?<br> ><br> > --<br> > Jack Smith
<br><br><br></div>Many possibilities:<br><br>Your server probably has a log file in /var/log/? that you can read.<br>What webserver are you running?<br><br>You can run the "logcheck" program. It greps your log files once an
<br>hour and sends you an email with anything interesting. You define<br>what's interesting with regular expressions in the config files.<br>For a very low volume site you could just have it send you any log<br>activity for the website.
<br><br><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank">http://www.statcounter.com/</a><br>They give you some javascript to include on your webpage, then you log<br>into their site to see the stats. Free for the last 100 hits to your
<br>site. Pay money for longer history.<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/analytics/</a><br>They give you some javascript to include on your webpage, then you log<br>
into their site to see the stats. Free.<br><br><a href="http://www.digits.com/" target="_blank">http://www.digits.com/</a><br>A web counter that shows on your webpage. Free if you include a small<br>icon/link to their page. There are a number of services like this.
<br>Some come and go, this one has been around a while. You could also<br>write your own cgi script in perl or bash or whatever to do this pretty<br>easily.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br><br> Frank Ball <a href="mailto:frankb@frankb.us">
frankb@frankb.us</a><br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a><br><a href="http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">
http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>OK everybody, thanks, I just tripped over the logs by myself. My server is keeping usage in /var/www/usage/ by month, day, and hour with all sorts of beautiful graphs. All in HTML so I can look at it in my browser.
<br clear="all"><br>Thanks again,<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.