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Hey Im Having a slight difficulty here. I am making a cheapass web page hosted for me for free on Angelfire. Basically I am making this web page for no reason other than to learn. So, my question may not be as important as questions asked by business owners who really need quality websites. Anyways, to the point, I have been trying to get my site to create a txt log on my computer that records visitor information such as IP, Browser, and Referring Page. There are many free CGI scripts, but neither Angelfire nor any other free webhosting sites support CGI or perl. So I was wondering if there are any HTML or other simple tricks that can log information for me. Thanks!
The Webmistress posted this at 17:34 — 1st May 2003.
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Don't feel that your questions aren't any more valid than anyone else's here! We all had to start somewhere and there is no such thing as a stupid question - just stupid answers
Without paying for a third party script to be put onto each page and recorded remotely you would really need to have access to the log files from the server and I don't think many free hosts give this.
What specifically are you wanting this information for?
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CraseeFool posted this at 19:54 — 1st May 2003.
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Well, I was hoping I could use the information I gained from web visitors so I could hack their computers... just kidding. Actually, like I said before I am just making this page to learn. I don't really know alot about programming and HTML seems pretty easy so far compared to some of the other languages, and a visitor log is just one of the many parts of my page that I am basically scrapping together from clips of code here and there.
Elemental posted this at 20:08 — 1st May 2003.
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Hey Crasee,
The Webmistress is right, it would be pretty hard to do without access to the server's log files or a writable directory somewhere. If you were just interested in the stats, there are a lot of counter services out there that you can use, but since you're trying to learn, that doesn't help you that much
Javascript and Java can't write to files without special permissions. Newer versions of Flash might be able to produce something that could write to a file, but I'm not a flash programmer so I'm grasping at straws here. Also, flash is a little harder than HTML.
It would be interesting to see if someone has a solution to this problem!
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Busy posted this at 21:19 — 1st May 2003.
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use a third party tracker, like extreme (gives good results) do a search on here for tracker or logger etc
kb posted this at 00:54 — 2nd May 2003.
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well if you are looking for a free host that supports CGI's, as long as you don't mind ads, check hypermart.net i used to use them, not so bad..but only support CGI/PERL not PHP, CF, ASP, etc...and it only allows txt db. but for a few bucks you can get ad free and language support for what you need (or check sarvihosting.com when its back up,
, thats who i use to host)
[note]i am in no way affiliated with either host, besides the fact that i used to use one, and use another currently[/note]
Renegade posted this at 05:52 — 2nd May 2003.
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Well there is a piece of Javascript code which shows the information that you need (I'm sure I can find it again
) but as already mentioned, Javascript can't write to a file.
justjeni posted this at 01:31 — 12th May 2003.
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http://www.bravenet.com has free trackers - you can have up to three stat trackers - for free. The results do tell you which browser the person was using, what link they came from, etc. It's pretty good for a freebie.
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fobia posted this at 15:09 — 30th May 2003.
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hey im also a newbie but
i think cgispy.com is the one you are trying to find.
i use them, i also uses free web hosting from geocities.
disaster-master posted this at 16:35 — 30th May 2003.
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Site Meter has some ok free stats.
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