What are my users looking at?

[kolohe]

I am considering using EE's username facility (as opposed to Apache's .htpasswd scheme, which I currently use).

With Apache, I can look at the server logs and see what user is accessing the site, and what they're looking at. Can I do that with EE's username facility? If so, how? It's not jumping out at me.

Paul

[Pekka]

You can see in your server logs for exhibition=x where x is the protected exhibition.

If you need to see browsing by ee_user_id, then that is not fully there -- now you can see in "User overview" editor how many sessions there are for specific user id and when was last activity.

The IP for each session is stored in ee_session table, so you could correlate that with server logs, or if you want more you could always write a support table to to store each page, photo id etc. for each ee_login_session_id.

I personally think that kind of logging should be done by webserver, not EE.

[kolohe]

I agree with you about where the logging should be done.

I like EE's username scheme better, because I can specify what exhibits each person gets to see (if I ever get to that point). It would be really simple if the EE username was in the URL.

The only problem with the session table is that the row gets deleted when the person signs off.

This isn't really a big deal - more of a curiosity thing.