IP Adress of new users
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Topic: IP Adress of new users
Posted By: teknorat
Subject: IP Adress of new users
Date Posted: 12 November 2003 at 6:39pm
| Is there any way I can tell what IP address someone has subscribed from? The user has not posted as of yet so I can't tell their IP. |
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 12 November 2003 at 8:14pm
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YOu would have to mod the forum for that. Is not there by default but is not hard to do... ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: teknorat
Date Posted: 12 November 2003 at 11:29pm
| Is their a mod currently available that does that? I'm still learning ASP and don't want to risk stuffing my site up. |
Posted By: teknorat
Date Posted: 13 November 2003 at 2:14am
| Also what are the files that relate to the IP adress logging I don't mind having a go at it myself but I need somewhere to start. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 November 2003 at 2:23am
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The forum olny stores IP addresses related to posts. To get IP adderesses when a user signs up you will need to add a new field to the tblAuthor table to store the users IP address in, then add some code to the register.asp file to save the users IP address when they sign up. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: teknorat
Date Posted: 13 November 2003 at 2:28am
| Ta. |
Posted By: Webber
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 1:12pm
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Being new to ASP and this forum (running ver 7.6), why code would need to be added to the register page? Also, is there any way to log visitor 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. Thanks in advance, Robin |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 4:26pm
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The quetsions was logging IP's when a new users registers so this would need to be added to the register.asp page. When a user posts and message their IP is logged, this info can be viewed by the admin at the top of the persons post where you see IP Logged. If the admin clicks on the IP address a pop up window opens allowing the IP address or range to be banned. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Webber
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 5:16pm
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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 |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 November 2003 at 3:34am
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Each time a Guest posts their IP address is shown above the post in the
same place where you see IP Logged, this IP address can be viewed by
the forum admin.
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Posted By: Webber
Date Posted: 26 November 2003 at 10:37am
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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? |
Posted By: thekiwi
Date Posted: 26 November 2003 at 10:40am
So when "would" you collect it ....? There would need to be a trigger ... so would you want it everytime they looked at a page? ------------- Cheers TheKiwi http://www.infobahn.co.nz - Internet Infobahn - website design and hosting |
Webber wrote:Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 26 November 2003 at 11:11am
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Just look at your server logs. Every IP address that hit your website is logged there. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: Webber
Date Posted: 26 November 2003 at 11:46am
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I guess I got spoiled by the InfoPop UBB...it captured the IP of all guests upon entering the site as well as it tracked all guests and members of the forum by IP and what topics they were viewing.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 November 2003 at 4:15am
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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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Webber
Date Posted: 27 November 2003 at 9:53am
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I "think" that the way UBB does it is some sort of cookie tracking. Once the unregistered guest hits the main page of the forum, a cookie is created and in the perl code the IP is logged.... from there the guest is tracked via the cookie and the initial IP is the only one logged. I will check on the UBB boards re: the lastest version which is what I was using to see if this is still the method. |