Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Re: Counter Set-up

[Sam S. <sa...@us...>]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tim Lee wrote:
> > Is it possible to set the parameters for the counter to reference a single
> > counter for an entire site rather than individual pages?
> >
> > I would like to have a single text counter that records hits to all pages of a
> > site rather than individual pages.
> >
> > Right now the script when executed on any given page creates a new data script
> > for that page and records the hit. Can the script be directed to reference a
> > single count script in the cgi-bin/data directory?
> >
>
> This is certainly possible, I have Cc'd the developers list to determine
> whether anyone thinks this is a silly idea before I do anything about it
> :)
>
> It almost certainly would involve having a $use_single_counter
> configuration and a $counter_file - none of this coming into play unless
> $emulate_matts_code is false.

It would also be a nice feature to be able to use the same script  for
multiple hosts by including the HTTP_HOST value somewhere in the
encoding.

That way you can have
   www.foo.wibble.com/index.shtml
   www.bar.wibble.com/index.shtml

both call the same script and not both incrememnt the same counter.


Although I can see the single file format becoming a bottleneck on
busy servers (who probably should be doing something better anyway..)


Sam

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