Obtaining Access Logs for User Web Sites? 28
David Hilbert asks: "I have a very amateurish home page for sharing family photos and unusually useful links with my friends and family, here. For a long time my son hosted my website on his computer. He added a visitor log to it. Even though my web site is rarely accessed, I still had great joy in looking over my visitor log daily to determine who was accessing my website.
My son's situation, changed, however, and he could no longer host my website. I still wanted a web site, however, so had my ISP host it as they do for any member. However, my web site visitor log was gone. My ISP was either unwilling or unable to give me a log file of accesses to my site. I found a temporary alternative, however. I subscribed to a commercial service at the ToolShack to capture and do a fancy analysis of my site's visits (with colorful pie charts, bar graphs, etc). Several months, later, however, Toolshack quit working for me. I sent email to the techies at Toolshack. 'It's a mystery to me' is all I got from them, so I canceled my account. I would like some help finding an alternate web site logging service. I have had no luck thus far. I could do it myself but my ISP doesn't allow any scripts on user's web sites. Any ideas on how I could get a visitor log?"
Logs... (Score:4, Funny)
Get a new isp (Score:2)
Pay for Hosting Service (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Pay for Hosting Service (Score:2)
Their stats are nice, and their customer service is damn good. I can't believe they are so cheap.
Change Hosting services... (Score:5, Informative)
I host my site at pair.com [pair.com]. It's a cheap ftp-only site that costs only $5/mo. The provide raw logs, or will run analog on them. I've never had a single problem with them.
You can also get more robust accounts beyond ftp-only.
If you're willing to pay for tool shack, then consider switching providers and getting stats and logs for free.
Re:Change Hosting services... (Score:2)
Protect-my-ass-disclaimer: YMMV, of course
Re:Change Hosting services... (Score:2)
Re:Change Hosting services... (Score:2)
Also, these log files can be mailed to the user.
Why not just change your web host ? (Score:1)
Idea (Score:2, Informative)
Try looking for counter or tracker software (Score:3, Informative)
There is a list of these services, including paid and free counters and trackers, at http://www.adbility.com/show.asp?cat_id=346 (adbility.com) [adbility.com] (select from the left-menu sub-options there).
a little offtopic.... (Score:2, Funny)
he told us in class that he gets compiled access stats delivered to him on the first of each month. he said it was interesting to see the spike in the graph the evening before and hours before the midterm.
Re:a little offtopic.... (Score:2)
The thing that scared me the most was that you could rank users by how frequently they'd hit the webpage, what time of day they looked at certain sections of the site, etc... By presenting this information in aggregate form, you can figure out quite a bit about the work habits of a particular student. Even apache weblogs don't come close to this.
another hosting service (Score:1)
One of their selling points for me is that ALL of their servers are running Redhat and the cost for 50MB is only $1.50/mon
As for seeing who has made it to your page, Webalizer (a pretty web access log front end) makes it easy to see where traffic is coming from.
change ISP... (Score:2)
If you want more than this info you can get a commercial account for 15 to 20 a month and have your own domain and they give you access to the log info. Aloowing you to see the referrer through a revers lookup. If someone searches google and then comes to your site it is in these logs but this is only for their commercial accounts.
old school image logging (Score:4, Informative)
cheap counter (Score:1)
I use it for a few websites I run.
counters and logs (Score:1)
Re:Christin (Score:2, Funny)
-1 Perverted
Re:Christin (Score:2, Funny)
(briskly moves pinky to mouth with dramatic music in background)
+1 Perverted?
Okay, I am going to troll (Score:3, Interesting)
BUT.. c'mon. I am an avid newsgroup reader, specially at the limited range of "webmaster" stuff. Nice... Anyway, that's usually the question people do when they post for the second or third time. This, and including perhaps "What's a free web host?" and "Browser portability" would be what I call true newbie questions.
No offense to the original poster, who asked the question. We were all newbies someday (yes, even I couldn't understand this client-server crazy thing!). Anyway, that would be at the top of any webmastering and designing FAQ.
ANY faq.
What I would normally answer if this was in a newsgroup would be "STFW", or 'Search the Fucking Web". Or Google (like if it has a difference
So, what's this? Part of a Slashdot new commercial endeavor, to attract different target audiences? Why the heck is this posted in Slashdot?
Like I said, we were all newbies one time or another. But we were... we were... that's now why we came to places like Slashdot, where I can get the news that fit my taste.
Oh well, rant is over.