Basicly looking for a freeware/opensource log analyzer that will let me know what files on my server is being hotlinked and where at they being hotlinked at. Any idea's on a software that will help me out?
Because I encourage hotlinking to the files, but only with a backlink to the website. So, I want to figure out whom is hotlinking and if they are giving a backlink to the website. On the other hand when I tried at first to block .swf files from being hotlinked, before I said okay go ahead and hotlink but give a backlink to my site, that meathod didn't work.
AWStats is free software (GNU General Public License). It allows the addition of "Extra Sections". It is possible to add a section which lists the hotlinked images. It is also possible to add another section listing the hotlinking referrers. I don't think it is possible to create a section that would match the "hotlinked images" with the corresponding "hotlinking referrers". I hope this helps. Jean-Luc
To complete my previous post. To get a list of the pages hotlinking to your site, you can use the Extra Section for AWStats that I just placed online : AWStats Extra Section: pages hotlinking to your site. Jean-Luc
I do not know how I could do that. I have been able to generate a second separate list with the hotlinked files. ExtraSectionName3="Hotlinked movies" ExtraSectionCodeFilter3="200 304" ExtraSectionCondition3="REFERER,^http:\/\/(?!www\.mydomain\.com)" ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle3="Hotlinked movie" ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues3="URL,^(.*\.mpeg)$" ExtraSectionFirstColumnFormat3="<a href='%s' target='_blank'>%s</a>" ExtraSectionStatTypes3=HBL ExtraSectionAddSumRow3=1 MaxNbOfExtra3=10 MinHitExtra3=1 Code (markup): This code should be improved, because, at this time, it includes the .mpeg files that appear in Google cache, as they are kind of hotlinked movies. Jean-Luc