website acces-stats

toadi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Got a big problem.

Got no SSI, php,etc....
Got plain perl-cgi(no mods) and javascript. Now I have to make a website counter(which page is accessed how many times).

Tried to parse the webserver-logs, but they are not logging which webpage is accessed!!!

My creative ideas are dryed out, can smb help me out ???

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Re: website acces-stats by httptech (Chaplain) on Jun 26, 2000 at 17:16 UTC
Use the World's Smallest GIF script to generate a one-pixel transparent image each time it is called, then add the location of the script to each page you want to track as an IMG SRC. Use the $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} variable to track which page the request came from and log it to your own logfile.	[reply]
RE: website acces-stats by Kevman (Pilgrim) on Jun 26, 2000 at 17:07 UTC
I've seen this sort of thing before here. If you look at the following URL Weblogging it covers keeping track of people who have logged to a web page. Alternatively, I'm sure you can find this by searching in the "Search" area.	[reply]
Re: website acces-stats by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 27, 2000 at 01:48 UTC
It's pointless. Please don't bother. See my rant on it on my homepage. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: website acces-stats by toadi (Chaplain) on Jun 27, 2000 at 20:04 UTC
Silly question merlyn, where are those rants about it...? (found a perl-lover in it and he installed cgi.pm on the solaris, and now I'm getting somewhere) -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right	[reply]