Counter

[Coupland]

Well, this isn't a pre-sales question but I can't find an area to post tech questions. I'm setting up the counter included within the control panel. I've used this counter before on my own server so I'm a bit familiar with it. Is there a way to configure the included counter to only count unique hits and disable it from counting my IP address? I believe this was done in the config file but I suppose the config file is shared per server on the hosted scripts.

I think the answer is that I will have to install the counter in my own CGI directory but would like to use the hosted one if at all possible. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks!

Coupland

I haven't heard of the ability to have it do this so I'm thinking you will have to probably download a custom counter and install it on just your site, here are some sites you can find some good ones at:

http://www.statcounter.com/ <--- very nice one

http://www.scriptarchive.com/textcounter.html

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...cess_Counters/

[Coupland]

This is the config file for the preconfigured counter. If I could get one IP in there and have it set to reload that would work. If not I guess I'll just figure out how to set it up.

###-----------------------------------------------------------------------
### configuration file for Count 2.5
### Automatically generated from user input by the script Gen-conf
### created on: Sun Jan 3 18:15:01 EST 1999
### Note: Configuration file format for Count 2.5 is different than
### older versions. -- mm
### The format of the file is described below:
### - Any line starts with # or ; is considered comment and ignored.
### - A section in the file is inside left and right bracket.
### - Each section has parameters below the section.
###
### Please read the Configuration section in the counter webpage for details.
### The official counter homepage is at URL:
### http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/Count.html
###----------------------------------------------------------------------

[version]
2.5

##-- options section
; If auto_file_creation=Yes, then the users can create data files. It IS
; dangerous to set this option to Yes.
#
; strict_mode=Yes or No. Run the program in strict mode or not. It's a good
; idea to set this option to Yes.
#
; allow_rgb_database=Yes or No. Convenient to use because colorname e.g., red,
; gold etc can be used instead of rgb components of the color, however it is
; very inefficient to lookup. If your site is busy, set this option to No.
#
; count_reload=Yes or No. It is a good idea to set this option to No. But
; you've to set this option to Yes if you are running a proxy server.
; Normally set this to Yes.
#
; log_error_messages=Yes or No. If your site is extremely busy and if the
; counter generates lots of logs, set this option to No. Normally set this
; option to Yes.
#
; show_error_messages_to_browsers=Yes or No. Set this option to No if you're
; concerned with privacy and you're sure that the counter works perfectly.
; If you set this option to No, you will not see error messages.

[options]
auto_file_creation=No
strict_mode=Yes
allow_rgb_database=Yes
count_reload=No
log_error_messages=Yes
show_error_messages_to_browsers=Yes

; You can specify IP address of the hosts you want to ignore from counting.
; netmasks can be used to ignore a entire network or a specificrange of
; hosts in the network. Read the counter documentation to know about
; netmasks. Wild card can be used as well. one item per line.
;
[ignore IPs]

;
; All possible names and IP addresses by which your host can be referred.
; These hosts can access the counter remotely or locally. Host running
; the http server must exist here. Wild card can be used. one item per line.
;
[authorized]
*.bar.com
abcd.foo.com
abcd
131.249.1.100
www.foo.com
www
test.counter.com