There's something wrong with the code in principle: as in, hit counters are bad -- you should be grepping the logs instead, and even those are wrong because of proxies and caching.

But specifically, this code:

open( LOG, ">/home/exposu/logs/web_access.log.txt" ) || die "$!\n";
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makes this a "one hit wonder". {grin} Each new hit overwrites the previous file instead of appending it. Change your > to a >> there.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker