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I have a basic question (I am a beginner to web world). Recently, I hosted a web server (Apache) and made some information available to a set of people. Same user name and password is given to all the people.
I want to log the visitor information of my site now. How do I go about doing this? Can I get the visitor's IP address, machine name etc. in the log? Is there any free software/scripts to do this?
Looking for a help on this topic.....
Shiva
If it were me, I would cookie the people that login with a unique cookie ID for each person. That way, you could keep track of the users in that fashion each time they logged in, and know how many unique people were using the same login / password on your system.
Then you can store the cookie ID in a database along with the IP & User Agent of the user, and you can then run further analytics of the people that are using your site.
Software to do the above...? Hm, don't know of any off hand, try searching at a script archive like hotscripts or sourceforge, and also consider writing your own (much more customizable based on your unique needs that way) in the server side language of your choice, eg, PHP, Perl, or ASP (available with Chillisoft Asp on Apache / Linux).
