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

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Sam Smith wrote:

> 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..)
>

Yep this looks like a good feature too though I'll have to have a play on
the train :)

/J\
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