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Carlos Marcano wrote:
> Hi fellows, hope you can help me with this:
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to keep track of the number of times a file
> has been downloaded from a web server?  I am hosting on a shared
> server some packages for Ubuntu Feisty users with Intel 537EP chipset
> modems and I would like to keep the count of how many times each
> packages is downloaded. I have no shell acces to the server but I have
> managed to install some stuff like php scripts. Any ideas? By the way,
> cheap is better :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> *Carlos Marcano*
> -Guri, Venezuela-

If the file is not massive, you could use a php script to open the file
and send it to the browser, saving a count to disk each time.

As Timothy Weber suggested, it can be useful to know the number of
completed downloads also. For this you could add another counter at the
very end of the PHP script, after the transfer is complete.

Something along the lines of

<?php
define ( REQUESTLOG, 'requests.log' );
define ( COMPLETELOG, 'completed.log' );
define ( FILETOSEND, 'score.html' );

// count requests
$counts = file_get_contents ( REQUESTLOG );
++$counts;
file_put_contents ( REQUESTLOG, $counts );

// send file
readfile ( FILETOSEND );

// count completed
$counts = file_get_contents ( COMPLETELOG );
++$counts;
file_put_contents ( COMPLETELOG, $counts );
?>

Make sure to create the two logfiles first with just '0' in them each.

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