intranet offline website page counter

[hobsonschoice]

Hi All,
I have created a sort of website/newslblog page on our works public server.everyone in the company has access to the site but we are independent from the internet.

My challenge is to install some sort of counter that show how many employees visit the site.
From my searching the net it looks like i will have to put some sort of cgi file in the folder with a little piece of script in the index page.

Is there any easy way to do this, where do i get an idiots guide for something like this. I just need a simple counter, no stats or anything.
I did get a cookie counter but that didnt work as it only showedthe visitor how may times that computer had viewed the site.useless.

really need some help on this asthe whole site should be live be finished by the end of the month.
Cheers all

[Deb]

Will the preinstalled counter work for your needs?
http://service.futurequest.net/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=146

It'll add 1 each time someone different visits the page (without calculating the same person reloading the page until someone else has).

There are several other options out there on the net but if this one will work for your requirements then it's likely going to be the simplest for you :)

Deb
- Waiting for the 'VistiorCam Stats Package' :)

[hobsonschoice]

Will the preinstalled counter work for your needs?
http://service.futurequest.net/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=146

It'll add 1 each time someone different visits the page (without calculating the same person reloading the page until someone else has).

There are several other options out there on the net but if this one will work for your requirements then it's likely going to be the simplest for you :)

Deb
- Waiting for the 'VistiorCam Stats Package' :)
HI Deb,
Unfortunatelt this one is also dependent on someone elses server (Futurequest)
it Says i have to have a futurequest webpage,
Imagine i have 10 networked computers and i have NO internet access. What counter can i use?

[Deb]

DOH! I missed the "intranet" part.... sorry 'bout that

[sheila]

I'm not personally familiar with running an intranet, but I would think that in order to install any sort of "counter" you would need a web server in order to run the CGI script each time someone access the page you are counting.

Do you have a web server running?

If not, you would need to set one up.

If you have a web server running, then you should contact the administrator and ask them what sort of scripting, such as CGI scripting or other, the server supports and get the basic server information for configuring scripts on that server.

[Joseph]

Another option if you don't have a web server may be client-side scripting (ie: Javascript).

I'm not sure how/if it's even possible to make a client-side counter. I assume you would need to be able to write to a file to store the number, and read that file to display it...

Just another idea that may you may want to look into. :smile:

[REMIYA]

This is exactly the same as working in Internet environment.

You have a server, that is going to be PHP, ASP or JSP enabled.

The simpliest is to have a user management part, the user authenticates with a UN and PWD.

Then it is just like any Internet application to count their visits to separate pages, how often they use the Intranet site and so on :)

[Randall]

Somehow, I think these suggestions are far more complicated than the original question: Where to look for a basic CGI counter script usable on their intranet server?

Just trying to help things along. :smile:

Randall

[hobsonschoice]

MY thoughts entirely. I didnt want to have to go to my server sdmin guys begging their help for a cgi /asp/ whatever script. Just wanted to find like a java class file i caould stick in the same folde as he index page which would kep tack of the conter. in basic it would take 30 secs to write.


something like ...
let count=COUNT+1
show COUNT
voila!

now surley there is a javascript that can simply count without need a whole internet to support it!
comeon folks, i'm starting to lose faith.

[sheila]

I don't see how you can have a reliable counter script that operates client-side. Something has to track when a new count comes...and ensure that the counter is properly incremented accordingly. If this is all done client-side, how can one client know what the other is doing? How can you avoid having one overwrite another?

I'm all for simple...if you can do it with javascript, more power to you. I don't know javascript, though, and conceptually I don't see how this can be done and be *reliable* if it is running on the client-side. If reliability is not a great concern...then go for it with javascript, I guess.