Mick Burrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:24 AM): > I have several different but similar domain names, all redirected to my > site. My idea was to give a different address to each of the people I place > a conventional magazine advert with (there's only about five), so that when > their readers type in the address to look at my site, I can tell from the > Analog report what they had typed in and hence which adverts are getting > the most response.
> I had assumed that this would show in the Referring Site report, but it's > not working as expected. These addresses have not been published yet, so I > can tell that it's me testing and I know what address I've tried and when I > tried it. The redirections all work and take me to the site. > On 1st December I typed in one of the addresses and this did come up in the > Referring Site report. Looking in the log file, the first part is "GET / > HTTP/1.0" 200 2929 "http://www.midtowncottages.org.uk/"; (This address is > the one I typed in - he actual site is at the dot com version of the name). > So far so good. > However, I have subsequently tried other addresses but they do not show in > the reports. The log files show "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2929 "-" and "GET / > HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" I do not understand the numbers here. The dash may > relate to the fact that the name I have used has a dash in it or it may be > nothing to do with it. The typed address does not appear in the log file by > these two entries as it does with the first one. Any ideas? The dash is what Apache uses to show and empty entry. Whether or not the domain shows up as a referrer has to do with (a) how you setup the redirection and (b) how your browser reports referrers on redirection. If you have configure Apache to just use an Alias for the web site, then no record of the domain the user typed in will exists (except in the referrers after the initial hit). If you are using a separate web site that sends a 302/Location header for redirection, then you may or may not get the referrer recorded for the first hit depending on how your browser handles that. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
