Well, again I lost the original post, so this is to the person
wanting to enable cookies for tracking of users...
First, you need to make the changes in the Configuration file to
enable mod_usertrack.o and compile Apache. Then, you need to
modify the httpd.conf file to enable it. Here's why my httpd.conf
used to contain (I turned it off as I wasn't using the info for
anything, and my users were complaining about the cookie warning
they kept getting -- course, when I told them how to turn off the
warning, they all did and were happy. They didn't care about the
cookie, just the annoying message from Navigrator):
CustomLog logs/clickstream "%{cookie}n %h %r %t"
CookieTracking on
CookieExpires 60000
You can read more about mod_usertrack at:
http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_usertrack.html
As an aside, Apache 1.3 has a new thing called something like
unique identifiers. It enables user tracking, without the need
for cookies. I've not looked at it, but it might be something
of use.
BTW, the reason that tracking clickstreams is helpful, is it
allows you to track the progression of a user through your site.
You can see what paths are common, what needs to be moved to
make a page more accessable, even how much time a user spends
on each page (roughly), up until they exit your site. This is
much more powerful than regular server logs.
Anyways, that should do it for you...
Mike
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