Webtrends does a DNS lookup on the IP to determine the identity...
they, I believe have an internal IP range masking to relate IPs to
geographic regions... similarly they might or could do a big lookup and
pull the registration record and parse that... I know they do tons of
DNS lookups cause when we run Webtrends our DNS servers go crazy with
activity.
CF by no means has functionality to do that without developing a custom
application....
Although the new cellphones have some GIS applcation use if you know
how to access them and can make sense of the data... :)
-paris
-----Original Message-----
From: "Wesley Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:24:42 -0400
Subject: cgi environmental variables
> I was wondering which cgi envirmental variables I could use to
> extract the
> CITY from.
> I've tried this.
> #CGI.REMOTE_IDENT# but it shows nothing.
>
> Or is there another method or tip that someone can tell me how to
> determine
> the city a users isp is coming from.
>
> If not how does webtrends know which city a particular user is from.
> There
> has to be a way to find this information out.
>
> Thanks,
> Wes_D
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mr G Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:59 AM
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Re: CF and partitions
>
>
> Many thanks - so the problem was that there wasn't a problem... I
> am amazed that I never noticed this when running CF on other
> systems. Anyway all fine now.
>
> Graham
>
> On 12 Jul 01, at 10:34, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
>
> > Mr G Lewis wrote:
> >
> > > This may be an NT Server question although I suspect it is to do
> with
> how
> > > Cold Fusion interacts with NT.
> > >
> > > We have an NT Server set up with 3 partitions
> > > C: operating system
> > > D: applications
> > > E: documents
> > >
> > > When NT Server installed it put the inetpub/wwwroot etc on C:
> > > We moved wwwroot (but not inetpub) to E: and redirected home
> directory
> > > of the web site to that location. So far so good.
> > >
> > > When we installed CF, CFUSION (application) went on D: and CFDOCS
> > > went on E:/wwwroot/ - via the installation program.
> >
> >
> > This is OK. It is supposed to go there. But keep in mind that
> generally
> > speaking it is not advisable to install the CF documentation on a
> > production server, only on test and development servers.
> >
> >
> > > Now IIS seems ok with this - anything with a htm extension is
> found but
> any
> > > cfm file is not.
> > >
> > > You can guess that we are new to this server stuff. Any
> suggestions?
> > >
> > > The error message that we see is below: Interestingly, if we use
> 127.0.0.1,
> > > everything works fine. This is probably a blindingly obvious
> clue but
> > > being novices we can't see how.
> > >
> >
> >
> -----------------------------------------snip------------------------
> -----
> ---
> > >
> > > Oops. Sorry for the error...
> > >
> > > One of several things could be happening:
> > >
> > > You're trying to execute a ColdFusion page with a
> > > URL other than the localhost or 127.0.0.1, or
> > >
> > > You haven't installed ColdFusion example
> applications
> > > or documentation.
> > >
> > > If you tried to execute a ColdFusion page, you just
> > > need to:
> > >
> > > Execute example applications and ColdFusion
> utilities
> > > locally, using the localhost URL or 127.0.0.1, or,
> > >
> > > If the pages you want to execute are not present,
> > > rerun the ColdFusion installer to install the
> example
> > > applications or documentation. Code examples that
> > > you can run from the CFML Language Reference are
> > > installed along with the example applications.
> > >
> > > Note that for maximum security, you should not
> install
> > > ColdFusion example applications or documentation on
> > > a production server.
> > >
> > > -----------------------snip--------------------------------------
> >
> > Well, actually, this is a ColdFusion error, so .cfm templates are
> found
> > and processed by CF Server correctly. But since documentation files
> are
> > considered a security risk you can only run them from 127.0.0.1 by
> design.
> > If you create any other directories it should work just find, just
> not
> > the cfdocs directory because that one is secured. The actual
> security is
> > in the Application.cfm file so it propagates to subdirectories of
> > /cfdocs, but you can remove it by deleting a few lines from the
> file.
> >
> > Jochem
> >
> >
> >
>
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