On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 11:22 Timothy Scoppetta <scoppet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I may be speaking from the bias of my comfort zone but hosting the pdf on > any modern cloud storage (gs, s3, etc) should give you this for "free." > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 08:19 <bro...@netgate.net> wrote: > > > > > It’s like it’s 1995 again :-). Here’s a resource for scripts but to use > > them your hosting server will need to have CGI > > capabilities: > > > > http://www.scriptarchive.com <http://www.scriptarchive.com/> > > > > For a lot of reasons I would recommend not adding counters to your page > > and instead glean stats from your access files. > > > > Kevin > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > > > It seems like I have forgotten more than I knew in the first place. > > > > > > Anyhow, I have a small website for a group that is just a simple > > hand-coded > > > page and a pdf file for download. I have been asked if it is possible > to > > > add a visitor counter and a download counter (This page has been > visited > > ## > > > times, This file has been downloaded ## times) to the page. I don't > need > > > any kind of tracking or anything, just a raw count of page accesses > and > > > file downloads. > > > > > > My coding skills are passing fast, and I'm looking for something really > > > simple. I did a quick search and everything I see seems to involve > > > complicated databases and analytics. I want KISS. > > > > No counters, with the exception of access logs, will work without CGI enabled and working. The simplest cgi implementation is probably to increment number embedded in a file in access. This can be done with any scripting language you are familiar with, available in your webserver cgi config and reasonably secured. -T
