marie b. Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 In Awstats, I've noticed that people are entering my site through specific photo and post URLs, and even through the URL of an image that I doodled and scanned. I'm a tad paranoid after some kid was hotlinking an entire folder of my images, so I'd like to know where these people are coming from and whether they're hotlinking my images or not. I can't see anyone hotlinking by scanning my Latest Visitors, and yet Awstats says that someone is linking to these posts and images somewhere. Or is there another explanation - bookmarked, URL history bar, etc? Quote
TweezerMan Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 My first guess would be that the visitors who are hitting these pages directly are coming from a search engine. If I really wanted to find out if someone had directly linked a page or image, I'd download the web server logs, search for the URL in question, and check out the remote IP addresses, referers, and user-agents - see if there's anything in common or anything that stands out. Quote
marie b. Posted June 1, 2005 Author Posted June 1, 2005 (edited) I should've mentioned that I tried to download the server logs, but got an error - an executable file inside of the download, with a filesize of 0. Also, I don't think that it's a search engine hit - I have my blog hidden from most search engines and the ones that do get through are redirected. Edited June 1, 2005 by marie b. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 I should've mentioned that I tried to download the server logs, but got an error - an executable file inside of the download, with a filesize of 0. If you are getting an error downloading the log file please open a support ticket with the help desk. But before you do, it may be possible that the log was cleared for the month and is actually empty. Quote
marie b. Posted June 1, 2005 Author Posted June 1, 2005 I thought that, too, but I tried to download it the day before yesterday and that's when I got the error. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, as I don't remember server logs coming with an executable file in them at all - on my old host, it was a text file that they sent me. Quote
TCH-Andy Posted June 1, 2005 Posted June 1, 2005 It's a text file - with the name of your domain. Hence if the name is "tchdomain.com" that would be the name of the file - which windows would think is an executable file..... Just change the extension to .txt and you should be fine Quote
marie b. Posted June 1, 2005 Author Posted June 1, 2005 Oh god - I should've seen that. Thanks! Now I'm off to sift through all of this . . Quote
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