Re: lynx-dev CGI hit calculation.

[Ari Moisio]

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, zur (P. A. Knuutila) wrote:


   Sorry for little off-topic, but about text browsers anyway 
> 
> Hello,
>       could anyone have an idea of a cgi-script which would calculate the
> hits, and enter them as a _text_ to the webpage? 
> 
> I got the knowledge how to make a, for example, perl script which
> calculates times run into a file and puts the amount to the output, but
> i dont know how to add them to the page. I heard about Apache having
> a feature that run cgi`s with <!--- cgi, but i dont know the exact
> syntax, and what that does to the output.

  Apache has feature called server-side include. Iuse followin lines on my
home page


...
<!--#config timefmt="%d.%m.%y %H:%M" --> 
<!--#exec cgi="./cgi-bin/counter.cgi" -->
...
  Counter.cgi is little shell script witch will count hits and output
result to stdout. In order to work, server should support srver-side
includes.  See my home page at www.sci.fi/~armoi.
 
> I could do this with shell scripting too, but anyone got better ideas? 

  Shell scripts are very useful and simple tasks like this  faster, IMO.
 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
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