
Counter
Web Counter allows you place a counter on your
website, showing how many hits you have received.
To access the
Web Counter Manager:
Click the Web
Counter Manager icon in your Control Panel.
Using Web Counter
To install the Web Counter:
Click Install Counter Software. A confirmation page will display, stating that
your request will be processed within 10 minutes. The counter's files will be
installed in your cgi-bin directory.
To include the counter on a web page:
The Web Counter must be placed on an SHTML document. An SHTML document is simply
an HTML document with an .shtml extension. Include the following code in your
page: <!--#include virtual='/cgi-bin/counter.pl' -->
Configuring Web Counter
All configuration will be done with files located in the <domain>-www/cgi-bin/
directory.
This counter cannot be configured so that it doesn't count visits from a certain
IP.
To change whether the counter increments when the page is reloaded:
Open the vars.inc file.
Look for the IP locking section, which looks like this: # IP locking (counter
doesn't increments when page is reloaded)
# 1=yes 0=no
$lock_ip =0;
$ip_lock_timeout =30; # in minutes
If $lock_up is set to 0, the page will only count visits that take place less
often than the $ip_lock_timeout. If $lock_ip is set to 1, then the counter will
count every time the page is loaded, regardless of whether it's a refresh, or a
new visit.
$ip_lock_timeout determines the length of time that has to pass before any
particular visitor will count again.
To turn on (off) animated digits:
Open the vars.inc file.
Look for the animated digits section, which looks like this: # use animated
digits
# set $ani_digits to 1 if you want to use the animated digits
#$ani_digits = 0;
$ani_digits = 1;
If you want animation as digits change, $ani_digits should be set to 1. If not,
change it to 0. Note that you will change the last line, not the line begin with
a hash (#).
To change the number your counter displays:
Open the counter file for the page you wish to change: <pagename>.cnt. For
example, if you want to change the counter on index.shtml, the name of the count
file will be index.shtml.cnt.
The only information in the file is a number, which is the number of hits your
site has already had.
Change this number to whatever you'd like it to be.
The next time you load your page, the counter will show your change.
To change the size of your counter:
Open the vars.inc file.
Look for the digit width and height section, which looks like this: # digit
width and height
$width = 16;
$height = 22;
Set $width and $height to whatever size you would like each digit to be.
To change how many digits your counter displays:
Open the vars.inc file.
Look for the padding section, which looks like this: # number of cells to pad
with digits
$padding = 6;
Set $padding to the number of digits you'd like to display.
For More
Information
Clicking This
tool's website, from the Web Counter Manager, will take you to the
Apache website with more information on the Web Counter.
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