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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition
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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

by Dimitri Aivaliotis
July 2016
Beginner
320 pages
6h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tracking website visitors

A fairly unobtrusive way to track unique website visitors is to use the userid module. This module sets cookies that are used to identify unique clients. The value of these cookies is referenced by the $uid_set variable. When that same user returns to the site and the cookie is still valid, the value is available in the $uid_got variable. An example of how to use these cookies is as follows:

http { log_format useridcomb '$remote_addr - $uid_got [$time_local] ' '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent ' '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"'; server { server_name .example.com; access_log logs/example.com-access.log useridcomb; userid on; userid_name uid; userid_domain example.com; userid_path /; userid_expires 365d; userid_p3p ...
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ISBN: 9781782173311