Re: logging page views, which method is better????

the problem with that is as soon as you run a load-baanced installation, collecting apache logs start to be a pain in the a$$ :) I have given some thought to the logging thing, but am still undecided re: letting apache do its thing, and writing scripts to aggregate the logs, or turning off apache logging and going to the DB. problem is this puts an annoying amount of stress on the production DB, so there you have it, the dilemma :) -a -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: php3@developersdesk.com > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 14 Jan 2001 01:58:33 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better???? > > Addressed to: "Dallas Kropka" <dallask@austin.rr.com> > php-general@lists.php.net > > ** Reply to note from "Dallas Kropka" <dallask@austin.rr.com> Sun, 14 Jan 2001 > 00:57:10 -0600 >> >> >> I have a large site, with several hundred pages.... its a product >> listing and shopping cart.... and I want to log my page views.... I >> receive an average of 3000 hits per minute. >> >> Is it better (faster) to log my views to a database table? or to a >> flat file? > > > No need to re-invent the wheel, all accesses are already being logged. > > > If you are using Apache, take a look at the access log. Every hit to > the server is already logged there. I am not sure what the default > location for the file is, but you can find it with > > locate access_log > > or by looking for the string Log in your httpd.conf file. I believe > it may appear under either the AccessLog or CustomLog keywords. > > You might want to look at Webalizer, or a couple of other programs to > analyze the contents. > > http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ > > There are others, but this is the one I use. > > > > > > Rick Widmer > Internet Marketing Specialists > http://www.developersdesk.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >