Re: [mv] Does minivend keep server [page] logs?

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:22:27PM -0700, Barry Treahy wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******

The "default" Roxen log (for debian linux) shows this for minivend:
dial101.7cities.net - - [24/Mar/2000:01:00:48 -0500] "POST /scrubs/Catalog/scrubs.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 ?

Of course Roxen sees changes.  How else would it work?  You can 
modify the roxen logs to show a lot more.  See the Roxen docs and
the configuration interface.  Process pages are the worst; in this case 
the full request is process and the referer is basket.

pm6-31.noln.com - - [27/Mar/2000:18:52:45 -0500] "POST /Catalog/lobsters.cgi HTTP/1.0" <(200/?)> <Mozilla/4.51%20[en]%20(Win95;%20U)> <https://ssl.mainelobsterdirect.com/Catalog/lobsters.cgi/basket.html?rUKjjWUr;;13> </Catalog/lobsters.cgi/process?rUKjjWUr;;13> </Catalog/lobsters.cgi/process?rUKjjWUr;;35> <ssl.mainelobsterdirect.com>

This is what I have in Roxen config file for this server:
*: $host $user - [$cern_date] "$method $resource $protocol" %3c($response/$length)%3e %3c$user_agent%3e %3c$referer%3e %3c$full_resource%3e %3cssl.mainelobsterdirect.com%3e
Something there doesn't add up right I see.  How odd.

We have minivend itself doing this:
pm6-31.noln.com rUKjjWUr:noln.com - [27/March/2000:18:54:55 -0500] PID:6944 PAGE: basket.html lobsters /Catalog/lobsters.cgi/basket.html

> Brian,
> 
> if I recall correctly the solution presented was less than desirable and had limitations.
> Basically, MV would direct its output to a file name based on the order number or session id
> and then redirect either to that file or to a page that would include that file.  Either
> way, you could better identify what was occurring in Roxen because of the reference to a
> physical page, but I didn't like it because of the extra page shuffles and overhead.  I
> can't believe that this is a Roxen specific problem but rather an issue with how MV creates
> the URL's.  How do you Apache folks deal with this?
> 
> I know that this might be equally as clumsy solution, but is it possible for MV to be
> modified for an additional and optional parameter to appear as part of the URL to indicate
> the real page name?  At least then there is something that could be parsed out of the log
> files.
> 
> Barry Treahy
> 
> Brian Kohles wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from "Brian Kohles" <brian@mediabang.com>     ******
> >
> > Just ran into a little problem with one of our clients. They want to get
> > statistics from their site so they can see how much traffic they are getting
> > and where it is coming from. Only problem is once the initial store.cgi is
> > accessed the server (roxen) doesn't see any changes in pages since they are
> > being handled by the Minivend cgi's.
> >
> > So my question is has anyone written or does minivend currently have
> > (couldn't find it in the docs or the list archive, looked like search on
> > minivend.com might be temporarily broken though.) a system for logging hits
> > & such to the specific minivend pages? Any kind of stats would be great.
> > Right now all we can get is basically how many hits the site gets (how many
> > times the store.cgi & the images are fetched). Anything additional would be
> > great.
> >
> > Brian Kohles  -  Graphic Designer
> > m e d i a b a n g !
> > brian@mediabang.com
> >
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