Not Omnis

[Doug Easterbrook]

hi Mike:

in addition to what Rob says….

Make sure you are using Apache or Nginx as a front end web server, even if all it does is pass requests directly through to omnis.

That way you have apache or nginx web activity logs in standard format fort web logs.

there are some pretty cool free tools that will graphically display 'where', 'when', 'path','load' and other such interesting stuff, with some analysis — if you give it web logs.

if you want the specific person, then you have to track that within your application after a sign in.


Sorry, I don’t recall the name of the one we use (and liked) as I haven’t been doing that kind of analysis for a while.





Doug Easterbrook
mailto:doug at artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978

> On Jan 22, 2025, at 1:45 AM, Rob Mostyn <mostyn at platformis.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> When someone hits your website there are a number of headers that include information such as:
> IP address of the requestor
> IP port number of the requestor
> locale (country-language)
> cookie (if you have set a cookie value)
> … and quite a few others
> 
> The IP address is as close as you will get to know who is visiting your website unless you have developed a login procedure in which case the visitor has identified themselves to you.
> 
> I am assuming you are using Omnis as your ultra-thin server where each page is requested from Omnis (as opposed to Apache/nginx/IIS whatever).
> 
> If you record your page requests and include the IP address, there are web services available where you can get geolocation info based on the IP address.
> 
> Rob Mostyn
> 
> 
>> On 22 Jan 2025, at 05:55, Mike Rowan <mgrowan at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Am I right in thinking that I cannot find out who visits my website?  Perhaps this is due to the invention of VPNs? 
>> 
>> Mike Rowan
>> Mobile: 0417 812 509
>> Email: mgrowan at fastmail.com
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