Administrator’s Guide

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For example, you might want to serve WML (Wireless Markup
Language) documents from your web site. Browsers with the
appropriate plug-in would be able to display the file in the browser
window.
For information about the Internet media type registry, go to
ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/.
Monitoring your site
The FileMaker Pro Web Companion generates three types of log
files that you can use for gathering information about web users who
visit your site:
1 access.log
1 error.log
1 info.log
For information on enabling log files, see “Setting Web Companion
configuration options” on page 3-3.
In addition, the Web Companion provides several external functions
for monitoring activity with your databases, which can be used in
your calculation fields and scripts.
Note For information about the log files generated by the Web Server
Connector, see “Using the Web Server Connector log files” on
page 2-5.
Using the access.log file
The access.log file keeps a record of every time someone accesses
the Web Companion from a web browser and lists the hits in NCSA/
CERN-compatible Common Log Format.
When you enable the Access Log File option in the Web Companion
Configuration dialog box, the Web Companion generates an
access.log file and places it in the root level of the FileMaker Pro
folder.
Every time a web user accesses your database, the Web Companion
continuously adds entries to the access.log file.
Note Neither the entries nor the file are automatically deleted, and so
the file may become very large. To save hard disk space on your host
computer, consider archiving the access.log file on a regular
schedule.
The Common Log Format used for the access.log file is:
remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] “request” status bytes
Where Means this
remotehost The remote IP address or hostname
rfc931 Required for UNIX systems
authuser The user name authenticated by the web user
[date] The date and time of the request