IP Adress of new users

Hi boRg,

My mistake I meant to ask is there any way to log visitor GUEST IPs that can be viewed by admin? I run a community site and this has been invaluable. UBB had this feature but I dumped UBB to move to this great forum. (Guests cannot post they must register on my forum).

Thanks in advance, Robin

Hi,

Yes that I know but I'm talking about capturing guest IPs who have not posted.

Is there a way to do this easily?

Just look at your server logs.  Every IP address that hit your website is logged there.

If you stored the IP address of every single person who looked at the forum the database would quickly become overlarge and slow down the forum.

If you look at the number of Guests looking at the forum on site over a 10 minute period it always shows between 15 and 40 at any time. That would mean storing around 3000 IP addresses each day of people who are simply browsing the forum.

To save on performance you might as well look at the server log files to get this data.

I can't imagine that InfoPop or UBB would store the IP address of every users browsing the board, they may however have some way of interacting with server logs to get this data which is possible in some other languages but not so much so in ASP.