I use simple script that keeps a log of everyone who "hits" the page, keeping the information in one file. For some reason, it produce unformatted log, without spaces and paragrafs, which is very difficult to browse:

Time: 05/13/05 08:09:12 EDT User: Host: Addr: 22.85.112.194 With: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Page: From: Time: 05/13/05 08:09:18 EDT User: Host: Addr: 22.85.112.194 With: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Page: From: Time: 05/13/05 08:09:28 EDT User: Host: Addr: 22.85.112.194 With: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Page: From: Time: 05/13/05 08:09:31 EDT User: Host: Addr: 22.85.112.194 With: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Page: From:

How to make text separated a little, like this:

Date: Fri May 13 04:00:08 2005
Page Visited: http://www.appt.org.uk/technical/calc_and_convert.htm
Host Name:
Visitor IP: 65.117.182.58
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Date: Fri May 13 04:00:44 2005
Page Visited: http://www.appt.org.uk/technical/size_chart.htm
Host Name:
Visitor IP: 65.117.182.58
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# logger.cgi
# version 1.0
# Create a file called main.log. Must have write permissions
# set to main.log

$mainlog = '/path/to/file/stats.txt';
$shortdate = `date +"%D %T %Z"`; 
chop ($shortdate);
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
open (MAINLOG, ">>$mainlog");
print MAINLOG "Time: $shortdate\n";
print MAINLOG "User: $ENV{'REMOTE_IDENT'}\n";
print MAINLOG "Host: $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'}\n";
print MAINLOG "Addr: $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\n";
print MAINLOG "With: $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}\n";
print MAINLOG "Page: $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}\n";
print MAINLOG "From: $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}\n\n";
close (MAINLOG);
exit;

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In reply to log file formatting by centrum

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