Track hits for specific asset

Hi, I need to track a specific asset (logo.gif) and report on how many times and from whom this asset is called from the server (server 2003 using IIS v6). What is the log file I need to audit and how does coldfusion monitor that?

patGRFXS

Asked: 2006-11-06

Advertise Here

2 Solutions

LVL 7

aseusaincCommented: 2006-11-06

You can specify the log file within IIS itself. Generally, I think it's default in something like C:\windows\system32\logs\w3svc.

Things like webtrends make auditing this a breeze. Otherwise you could easily write an app in CF to parse out the data.

As far as CF tracking hits, I dont know, never really messed w/ CF logs other than to troubleshoot.

KlainnCommented: 2006-11-07

Is logo.gif something that people will be clicking on to bring up?

If so you could do something like ..

<a href="hit.cfm"><img src="logo.gif></a>

hit.cfm

<cfquery datasource="#dsn#">
UPDATE LOGO_HIT_COUNTER
SET HIT_COUNT = HIT_COUNT + 1
</cfquery>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>

I use this quite a bit. Or if logo.gif isn't something that's clicked on, you could just create hit.cfm and call it on the body of the page holding logo.gif. <body onLoad="http://#CGI.SERVER_NAME#/hit.cfm">

patGRFXSAuthor Commented: 2006-11-15

It turns out that the script above from Klainn will not work in this case becouse I am not tracking when the image is being clicked on. I need to monitor the log files and report when a particular image file is called by an outside IP. I know the IP.

LVL 25

dgrafxCommented: 2006-11-26

Hi,
I believe there is a misunderstanding on how to track hits on a specific asset.
forget about tracking logo.gif or parsing log files.
on your page that you want to track you'd put:
<cfset str="ip=#cgi.remote_addr#">
<cfif StructKeyExists(Cookie,"Username")>
<cfset str=ListAppend(str,"Username=#Cookie.Username#","&")>
</cfif>
<cfif StructKeyExists(Session,"WhatEver")>
<cfset str=ListAppend(str,"Whatever=#Session.WhatEver#","&")>
</cfif>
You can put whatever you want to track
the code is simply saying if there is a cookie.username then tack it on
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking.cfm?#str#" style="display:none;">
note:
This img tag needs to be within a <cfoutput></cfoutput>
the http of the img tag url will be https if this is a secure server

Then here is an example tracking.cfm
<cfset str=replace(URLDecode(cgi.query_string)," ","","all")>
<cfloop list="#str#" index="ii" delimiters="&">
      <cfset "#trim(listfirst(ii,'='))#"=trim(listlast(ii,'='))>
</cfloop>
Only you know what you want to track - so I'm just supposing ip
<cfquery datasource="#request.datasource#">
      Insert Into Tracking WITH (tablock)
      (IP,str)
      Values
      ('#trim(IP)#','#trim(str)#')
</cfquery>
be sure you've setup a primary key that is an auto incrementing integer
and if you want a date field set it's default value to (getdate()) instead of inserting date with your query.
I'm inserting 'str' to an ntext field in the table also just for reference

you now have a database record that you can write a report on to view "hits" for a resource

now - with all that said (I realize it may be more than you wanted) you say you know the ip.
does that mean you are looking for just one ip?
write the code into your report to show hits based on this ip

Question has a verified solution.

Are you are experiencing a similar issue? Get a personalized answer when you ask a related question.

Expand your skills with this month's free Premium course.

Track hits for specific asset

Join & Write a Comment Already a member? Login.

Featured Post