TCH-Tim Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 I see in my awstats that a bunch of traffic is coming from "www.somemadeupforum.com/forum/showthread.php", but if I click on that link it tells me that I didn't specify a thread. I'm curious to know who's out there talking about me, and they've pushed a decent chunk of traffic my way. Is there a way to see in some logfile somewhere what thread this traffic is coming from? Just curious. Quote
TweezerMan Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 These are the only options I know of: 1) If the traffic is recent, you may be able to see the full referer URL on the "Latest Visitors" page (under "Web/FTP Stats" in CPanel). 2) The web server's access log will also contain the full referer URL ("Raw Access Logs" in CPanel). Quote
TCH-Tim Posted June 1, 2005 Author Posted June 1, 2005 Oh yeah, I forgot about those raw access logs. Doh Problem solved. Thanks David. Quote
Dirk Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 These are the only options I know of: 1) If the traffic is recent, you may be able to see the full referer URL on the "Latest Visitors" page (under "Web/FTP Stats" in CPanel). 2) The web server's access log will also contain the full referer URL ("Raw Access Logs" in CPanel). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi there, is there no other way? I get quite a few links from forums, and it really inconvenient having to go through the raw logs each time. It seems Awstats truncates parameters of a URL, such as after a question mark. Maybe there is a way to configure Awstats to show those? Regards Dirk Quote
TweezerMan Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 Welcome to the forums, Dirk! is there no other way? I get quite a few links from forums, and it really inconvenient having to go through the raw logs each time. It seems Awstats truncates parameters of a URL, such as after a question mark. Maybe there is a way to configure Awstats to show those? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The "parameters" part of a URL is known as the "query string", and yes, AWStats is not using the query string when reporting referer links. I don't know if this will work or not (I have not personally tested it), but the following is listed as an AWStats configuration directive: URLReferrerWithQueryVersion : 5.1+ ># Keep or remove the query string to the referrer URL in the statistics for # external referrer pages. This is used to differentiate between the URLs of # dynamic referrer pages. If set to 1, mypage.html?id=x and mypage.html?id=y # are counted as two different referrer pages. # Possible values: # 0 - Referrer URLs are cleaned from the query string (ie: "/mypage.html") # 1 - Full URL with query string is used (ie: "/mypage.html?p=x&q=y") # Default: 0 # URLReferrerWithQuery=0 You could try adding the above code to your AWStats configuration file, which should be located at tmp/awstats/awstats.your-TCH-domain.conf on the server. Set URLReferrerWithQuery=1, save the .conf file, then set its permissions to 0444 so that it cannot be overwritten with a default .conf file. Wait for the next run of AWStats and see if the referers now show the query string in the URLs. Hope this helps... Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.