Hi all,
i'm very new to NGINX.
I have a site and i want to count each time a user enters it.
Instead of keeping a counter on my site's server that will go up each time i serve a page i want to send add to my site a JS code that posts to a new server with nginx, sending the server a parameter.
The new server (the one with NGINX) will write to a constant file (each time a post is made to him) a line with the time and the parameter sent in the request.
I'll create a script that runs over the file and counts each entrance..

Since i'm getting massive traffic a friends told me that NGINX is suited best for my need, how can i use it in the best way?

Regards,
Guy

If I'm understanding you correctly, would the nginx access log be suffice?
The only issue I see is that if you're sending the parameter in the POST body, it won't be logged by nginx.
If it's possible to sent it in a GET parameter, it would be logged.

(I'm presuming the "massive" in your topic title refers to the amount of traffic rather than the amount of data that needs to be logged per request)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2013 08:01PM by Yumi.

Hi,

thanks for the reply.

you assumed correct, after reading the documentation some more i saw the access log.. i'm sending the needed data via headers and then i can log them quite easily..

Best..