Question

I have two different domains that both point to my homepage in the same server.

I want to log every single access made to my homepage and log which domain the user used to access my homepage, how can I do this?

I tried mod_rewrite in Apache and logging to a MySQL database with PHP but all I could do was infinite loops.

Any ideas?

EDIT:
By your answers, I see you didn’t get what I want…

As far as I know Google Analytics does not allow me to differentiate the domain being used if they both point to the same site and it also does not allow me to see that some files like images were accessed directly instead of through my webpages.

I can’t also just use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] cause like I just said, I want to log EVERYTHING, like images and all other files, every single request, even if it doesn’t exist.

As for Webalizer, I never saw it differentiate between domains, it always assumes the default domain configure in the account and use that as root, it doesn’t even display it. I’ll have to check it again, but I’m not sure it will do what I want…

INFINITE LOOP:
The approach I tried involved rewriting the urls in Apche with a simple Rewrite rule pointing to a PHP script, the PHP script would log the entry into a MySQL database and the send the user back to the file with the header() function. Something like this:

.htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain1\.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain1.net/logscript?a=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.net/logscript?a=$1 [NC,L]

PHP Script:

$url = $_GET['a'];
$domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

// Code to log the entry into the MySQL database

header("Location: http://$domain/$url");
exit();

So, I access some file, point that file to the PHP script and the script will log and redirect to that file… However, when PHP redirects to that file, the htaccess rules will pick it up and redirect again too the PHP script, creating an infinite loop.

Answer 1

The best thing do would be to parse the server logs. Those will show the domain and request. Even most shared hosting accounts provide access to the logs.

If you’re going to go the rewrite route, you could use RewriteCond to check the HTTP_REFERER value to see if the referer was a local link or not.

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain1\.net [NC]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(.*)domain1(.*)$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain1.net/logscript?a=$1 [NC,L]

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)domain2\.net [NC]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(.*)domain2(.*)$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.net/logscript?a=$1 [NC,L]

You may also want to post in the mod_rewrite forum. They have a whole section about handling domains.