Should I assume that the operator of a website is capable of tracking your every action at that site. I had a Forum once (SMF) that logged the IP address from which an account was created and most recently logged in from. This log is often retained for a substantial time, often indefinitely. In addition, most web server applications log all accesses in a master webserver log, which invariably includes the IP address, and a competent admin can correlate any activity on the website (even just viewing) with an IP address by examining that logfile. My question is ; I want to be able to do this with OSSN. Your thoughts on this may put me in the right direction to do this
if you really want full details, look at your Apache (webserver's) accesslog and errorlog files. That contains the ip performing the request, timestamp, user-agent, request string, and more. If you're using the provided VM image for OSSN or a standard Linux installation, the accesslog file will be /var/log/apache2 and errorlog will be in your OSSN root, as long as you've enabled error logging via the ossn admin interface.
you could of course write a component to do some more tracking and then nicely display everything if you want. personally I'm with Z-Man on this though - I hate that kind of tracking.
Please don't edit the core files, you may write your own component below is just a example that :
<?php
function log_init(){
ossn_register_callback('action', 'load', 'log_actions');
ossn_add_hook('page', 'load', 'page_log');
}
function log_main(){
$url = ...
$ip = ...
}
function log_actions(){
log_main();
}
function page_log($hook, $type, $return, $params){
log_main();
return $return;
}
ossn_register_callback('ossn', 'init', 'log_init');
Just a follow up. I got it to work by adding some code to the index.php. The log file will be created in the same directory.
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) //check ip from share internet
{
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']."\r\n";
}
elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) //to check if ip is pass from proxy
{
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']."\r\n";
}
else
{
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\r\n";
}
$file = 'log.txt'; //this is the file to which the IP address will be written; name it your way.
$fp = fopen($file, 'a');
fwrite($fp, $ipaddress);
fclose($fp);
Personally, I hate that kind of tracking - but technically there would be no reason not to implement it.
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