Thanks for tips, guys. I will give it a try.

Regards,

Carlos.

On 01/11/2007, Brendan Gillatt <brendan@brendangillatt.co.uk> wrote:
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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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