NetTracker Webserver Plugin

Does this require a dedicated server?

[Mardi_Gras]

I am seriously considering purchasing NetTracker, which offers a server plug in as one way of setting and tracking cookies. The current host of my site tells me they won't install any server plugins, which has me wondering - would this require a dedicated server?

[lorax]

I don't think so - but I'm not sure. (assuming apache webserver) The plugin requires some edits to the httpd.conf file which is read by the webserver:

"Find the line that begins with LogFormat. (If there is no such
line, find the line that begins with CustomLog. The LogFormat
line belongs immediately before the CustomLog line.) Add the
following after the last LogFormat line (all one line):

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\"
\"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{SaneCookie}n\" %<{SaneStop}n %T" sane"

You can have more than one website using the same httpd.conf file but each website's logs can be seperated so I would think that the references to cookies added/edited/deleted by one website could be tracked by that website alone - in otherwords just because each website may be using cookies, cookies associated with your domain will not included in the stats for someone else's domain and vice-versa.