Re: FP 2003 subsite page counter problem has appeared
- From: Mark Goodge <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:07:22 +0100
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:32:31 +0100, John L put finger to keyboard and
typed:
I have recently encountered an annoying problem with my web site.
As it is rather large it is separated into several subsites and everything
has worked well until a couple of recent updates.
Follwoing these I have noticed on newly created subsite pages that the page
counter no longer works.
eg:
http://www.irishseashipping.co.uk/heritage/wales/amlwch030207/amlwch030207.htm
However, on updates performed previously the counters continue to work.
I have performed some tests using a blank new page in the root directory of
the subsite and the counter works fine
eg:
http://www.irishseashipping.co.uk/heritage/blank1c5c.htm
This has got me rather puzzled
Any suggestions?
It appears to be a server-side isssue. if you call the page counter
script directly in the URL, then it works for your test page but not
for your real page:
http://www.irishseashipping.co.uk/_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/heritage/?Page=blank1c5c.htm|Image=0
http://www.irishseashipping.co.uk/_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/heritage/?Page=wales/amlwch030207/amlwch030207.htm|Image=1
The second of these is generating an error, suggesting that the server
is having some problem with it.
I have no idea how to fix this, since I don't use FrontPage. However,
looking at the code on your site, you appear to be using quite an old
version. It says version in the headers, but the latest version -
which has itself been discontinued by Microsoft in favour of an
entirely new product - is version 11. So the most likely solution to
your problem, assuming you want to carry on using FrontPage, is to
upgrade to a more recent version.
In the long run, though, the only sensible solution is to ditch
FrontPage and use authoring software that works properly. FrontPage is
full of bugs (I suspect you've just found one), and it creates really
bad HTML. Recent versions are better than the one you've got (and its
replacement, Microsoft Expression Web, is better still, although still
limited compared to other products), but they're still pricy compared
to their competitors and offer no real advantage unless you're working
in a dedicated ASP environment.
In any case, using page counters as a measure of usage is probably the
worst possible way of doing it - it's unreliable, and it makes the
site look extremely amateurish in design. If you want stats, then the
best way of getting them is to use proper server-side logs and analyse
them. If you can't do that in the short term, then something like
Google Analytics will give you a more useful set of figures than
FrontPage's built-in web counters.
Mark
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