website logging

[Farkum]

Sorry if this is a newb question but I couldn't find a good answer on this anywhere.

I have my home mac mini set up to share through website using snow leopards built in site sharing and homedns.org. Anyways, I would like a log file of ip addresses that access the website and what they download from it. Basically I use it for putting family photos or media that I want to share up with the family and I want to make sure nobody else is downloading it... at least not on a regular basis. The media center also has geektools installed so I was going to use that to show the log file on the desktop at all times.

 

[angelwatt]

You just need something like AWStats that looks at the Apache web logs. Just realize tracking IP addresses won't mean you know who is visiting the site and downloading things.

 

[star-fish]

You'd be better off password protecting it.

 

[Farkum]

actually I figured it out. I set up geektools to show apache's accesslog file on the desktop. It is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Tells me what files are being downloaded, when, and by what IP.

 

[star-fish]

When you say 'downloading', do you mean loading an image on a page or clicking a button or link to download a file?