how to Output page hits to a text document - asp.net

Question

I have an HTML home page. I want to be able to output to a text document on the server every time a person views the page.
I want to out put the IP addrs, Page and Date/Time anyone know an easy way of doing this?
If it has to be done other than html i would prefer to use ASP.

Answer 1

First, rename the page to have .aspx extension and add code behind file as well.
Second, add this method to the code behind:
private void WriteLog()
{
string currentFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Request.FilePath);
string logFileName = string.Format("{0}_{1}.log.txt", currentFileName, DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMyyyy"));
string logFilePath = Server.MapPath(logFileName);
string IP = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
string logMessage = string.Format("[{0}] [IP: {1}] [Page: {2}]", DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"), IP, Request.FilePath);
File.AppendAllLines(logFilePath, new string[] { logMessage });
}
And finally just call the above method from within the Page_Load event e.g.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
WriteLog();
}
This will create text file with the same name as the .aspx (in the same location) plus the current date to avoid clogging the same file with millions of lines, and append one line for each hit.
Edit: this is .NET 4.0 code so you'll have to define this as the target framework in both Visual Studio in case you're using it, and in the IIS configuration. The web.config should be updated by the Studio and in case you're not using it, here are the extra lines:
<system.web>
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>

Answer 2

As #Alp said PHP would be the way to go:
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //gives you the visitor's IP address
basename($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]); //gives you the page name
date(); // gives you the current date
Then it would just be a case of running a little script that writes those to a file on each page.
Might be worth looking at Google Analytics - it gives lot's of useful stats about visitors (not 100% you can get individual IP addresses, can anyone clarify this?)
Edit:
ASP.NET
Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]; // ip
Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_REFERER"]; // page

Answer 3

You can use PHP for that if your server supports it.

Answer 4

You can use an existing log framework like Log4Net.