Many Web sites have a small display - such as the one above -
that shows the number of times their home page has been visited.
You can do the same for your home page if you follow the
instructions below.

Setup:

Before reading further you must have set up your personal home page directory structure and contents so that you can execute cgi scripts. If you haven't yet done this, please read "How to Enable CGI Scripting for Your Personal Home Page".

To set up your scripting-enabled personal home page proceed as follows:

1. Create a stats directory under your public_html directory
   Change to your public_html directory
   cd ~/public_html
   Make directory stats
   mkdir stats

2. Create the files counter.txt and counter.log in your stats directory The counter.txt file will be used to maintain the count. The counter.log file will log the date and time of the visit.
   Change to your stats directory
   cd stats
   Create file counter.txt and initialize it to 0
   cat > counter.txt
0
^C
   Create file counter.log
   cat > counter.log
^C

3. Set the proper file permissions
   Set file permissions for counter.txt to 660
   chmod 660 counter.txt
   Set file permissions for counter.log to 660
   chmod 660 counter.log

4. Put the cgicount script in your cgi-bin directory
   Change to your cgi-bin directory
   cd ~/public_html/cgi-bin
   Copy cgicount file
   cp /usr/local/bin/cgicount .
   Set file permissions for cgicount to 770
   chmod 770 cgicount

Displaying the Counter

<img src="http://www.izzy.net/c

<img src="http://www.izzy.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap?user=loginid&script=cgicount">

gi-bin/cgiwrap?user=loginid&script=cgicount">

The only change you need to make is to substitute your login ID for loginid in the line above.

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