On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajsand@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
How does one monitor if a site is being accessed using browser?
IOW, I just want to know if a user has launched a session thru Firefox.
I basically want to know if a user has tried to access the webserver and unable to reach it and log such instances.
I am using cron and curl to seperately monitor the link.
Any clues?
Centos 5.2/Gnome/Firefox 3.0.16
It's clear what it is you're trying to do, but If you're running Apache, turn on
CustomLog "logs/access_log" combined
The default is
CustomLog "logs/access_log" common
It will not only log the browser type, it will also log the OS in the access_log file.
For errors accessing files, see the error_log.
If the client can't reach the site, then it should be clear the server won't be able to log the attempt.