[thelist] Seeing IP addresses: Used to be: CoffeeCup Free HTML

[Martin]

Erik Sabowski wrote on 13/7/00 7:13 pm

>if you have access to the access log for whatever server your site is
>being served with, it'll tell you what pages are being accessed. it'll
>show their IP, time of request, and the file that was requested. so you
>could write a script that tells you how many times each page was
>accessed very easily, and even break it down by day, hour, etc., like
>Webstats, if you wanted to put that much work into it.

The raw log file is what WebTrends et al analyse for you. For busy
sites, it's hellabig, as it logs every single requested file (all images
etc).

Of more use than the raw access log is the error log, as it will tell you
broken links, missing images, non-operating CGIs etc.

Cheers
Martin