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WWW:  Counting accesses to your WWW page on halcyon


Q.  How can I see how many accesses have been made to my WWW page?

A.  Currently there is only one way:

        - Searching our logs of all WWW page accesses

    It is also possible to keep a running counter of hits on a page itself.
    Counter scripts are discussed in another FAQ, "Putting A Web Counter On
    Your Halcyon Web Page."


Searching Our Logs of All WWW Page Accesses
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Current day logs of the personal web server are kept in /logs/apache.
Access logs are in "access_log" while server errors are kept in
"error_log".

We keep daily logs of WWW page accesses on the halcyon-family systems in
files named:

     /logs/apache/access_log.NN or /logs/apache/error_log.NN

...where "NN" is the day of the current month.  For instance, the log
named:

     /logs/apache/access_log.15

...was for the 15 of the current month.   If the current date is less
than 15, then the log is for the 15th of the previous month.

You can search them using the "grep" program.
Some examples:

     grep -c "nwnexus/index" /logs/apachec/access_log.*

        ...will produce a listing of the name of each log file in your
        scratch directory and how many times the Northwest Nexus page
        appears in it.

     grep "nwnexus/index" /logs/apache/access_log.* | wc -l

        ...produces a single number that sums up all accesses for the
        last month.  And this command line:

     grep nwnexus/welcome /logs/apache/access_log | \
	 awk '{print $1}' | \
             sort -u | \
		 more

        ...shows *who* accessed the page at least once in the current
	day log.


A note about courtesy:  These log files are extremely large.  A daily
log file, decompressed, is about 50 megabytes.  Searching them takes a
fair amount of time and processor power; searching a whole batch of them
at once could easily impact system performance for all users.  We request
that you refrain from searching the logs during peak hours.


(14-Oct-96/wwwcatyw/WRD)
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