Hit Logger
Hit Logger is your ultimate web site hit-tracking system. By using Hit Logger, you can accurately track all hits to your site! No special server software is needed.

Features of Hit Logger:
• Logs Referring URLs, Dates, Times, User Addresses, User IP Addresses, and the Page(s) visited
• Lists hits by Day, Week, Hour, Numbers, and other Specific Time Periods
• Creates Graphs of Referring URLs, Local Document Hits, and First Level Domains

Examples for our Windows 95 Tips Pages and Front Page 98 Tips Pages.

Your Hit Logger should already be installed to your web site.
If it has not and you would like it installed just send a email to support.

You will now need to add a tag to your HTML pages (in the source code of your page) . On each page you'd like to track, add the tag
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/hitlog/hitlog.pl"-->

Nothing more is needed but to point your browser to the URL that was sent in your email.

Below is an explanation of each variable and how it should be configured in the script.

Location (NOT URL) and name of the log file
This variable stores the location and name of the log data file. If you place this file in your cgi-bin directory with the perl files, it will not need to be changed. However, if you place it in a different directory, you must specify the full path to the directory.

Location (NOT URL) and name of tempgif.gif
tempgif.gif is the file in which graphs are created. Every time Hit Logger creates a graph, the graph is written to this file. This file can not be in your cgi-bin directory, so you should put it in your HTML directory (images). If your HTML files are one level up from the cgi-bin, you don't need to change this line.

Location (NOT URL) and name of hlstats.pl
It is highly recommended that this file is put in the same directory as hitlog.pl. This line should not need to be changed.

Location (NOT URL) and name of hladmin.pl
It is highly recommended that this file is put in the same directory as hitlog.pl. This line should not need to be changed.

URL of this FILE
Type in the complete URL of the file in this field. Keep in mind, it needs to be in the cgi-bin directory.

URL of the DIRECTORY in which go.gif, hitlog10.gif, minilogo.gif, and bargraph.gif are located
Type in the complete URL to the directory in which these files are located. They cannot be located in the cgi-bin directory.

URL of tempgif.gif
The URL of tempgif.gif. This URL must correspond to the directory (location) you specified above. However, this field is the URL, not the location.

Display the Hit Logger Mini logo on your HTML pages? (YES or NO)
This value must be set to YES or NO, in capital letters. If you choose YES, a little Hit Logger logo will be displayed on your HTML page. If you choose no, there will be no logo displayed.

Administrator Password
You must choose a password which will allow you to access administration functions, such as deleting portions of the script. The password is case sensitive. The source code of scripts cannot be seen in a cgi-bin directory, so it is safe to type it in the file.

You are now done with the hard part! hlstats.pl and hladmin.pl require no variables to be set, so now you just need to upload the files and set the channel modes. Make sure you upload the files into the directories you specified above. After uploading, you will need to set the following file modes.

hlstats.pl, hladmin.pl, hitlog.pl - 755
hitlog.dat - 777
tempgif.gif - 777

You will now need to add a tag to your HTML pages. On each page you'd like to track, add the tag:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/hitlog/hitlog.pl"-->

You are now ready to use Hit Logger! To start, type in the URL of:

http://www.Your_Domain.com/cgi-bin/hitlog/hitlog.pl

And it will give you links to the administration page and the statistics page.

If at any time you find your self having problems please send support an e-mail.