MetaSun : Website Stats

[Dave]

Whilst the abyss stats in the control pannel is ample for many people, there are those of us who just want more, or dont want to give out control pannel access ;) This tutorial will walk you through setting up Metasun's Stats software avaliable at the following link:http://www.metasun.com/

Requirements:
ASP - ActiveHTML

Installing
1: Download the stats package from http://www.metasun.com/
2: Extract the contents of the zip file to: /Stats/ in your htdocs folder, so all the files are in the /stats/ directory.
3: Open Config.asp in your favourite text editor, do not use Frontpage for this!
4: Adjust Config.asp as below:

Lines 30/31 dont need to be edited, however if you want to protect the stats adjust them so that between the two "" is your password.
strUsername = ""
strPassword = ""

Line 39 Needs to be edited to reflect your address, as follows:
strSiteAliases = "127.0.0.1"
or, if you run a domain off Abyss adjust it to:
strSiteAliases = "MyDomain.com"

Line 44 can be left as is, so it reads:
strExcludeIPFromLog= ""
Of course, you may decide to make use of the IP ignore feature, in which case you'd enter:
strExcludeIPFromLog= "127.0.0.1,myotherip,andanotherip"

Line 58 can also be left as is, to show graph for the data leave as is, otherwise use:
blnShowGraph = flase

Leave lines 63/69/74/81/87 as is...

Line 93 should be changed to reflect the path where we installed metatraffic , so, in our case:
strDatabaseLocation = "/Stats"

Line 111 should alos be left as is.

Now, Save your file and read on about "Tracking your website" ;)


Tracking your website
Now, to track your actual files, you'll need to add the following to the top of any file to be tracked.

For ASP Files:
<% Server.Execute("/Stats/track.asp") %>

For Other files, NOT ASP files:
You'll need to open track.js in your favorite text editor and change Line 21 to read:
var scriptlocation = "/Stats/track.asp";
Sace the file and add the following to any HTML etc... file to be tracked...
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/metatraffic/track.js"></SCRIPT>
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[Dave]

Is this guide just so superior no-one has had a problem with it? :), or does nobody use ASP :(
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[vbgunz]

Can you add a poll now that its done? :D
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[Dave]

Yep, Poll added.
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[crazymazey]

how do you get this to work using mysql database

the reason i ask is because i can't get it to work using this tutorial

i don't use msaccess

i got the page up but it does not show any stats it says the database is empty
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[blast1102]

Is this a typo

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/metatraffic/track.js"></SCRIPT>

Either way no joy, I have tried it with /stats and with metatraffic. I just get an empty DB.

Update if I type /stats/track.asp in to the address bar I get a DB entry, so it is not a permision problem with the DB.
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