We have two types of "hit" counters on our servers that you can use, or you can create/compile your own. These counters run only on our UNIX servers. If you have a site hosted on our NT servers, you can use the counter features standard FrontPage. For information on these please consult your Microsoft documentation.

• Graphical Odometer Counter


1. Telnet to sharedhosting.net and log in

2. Change to your public_html directory (cd ~/public_html)

3. Issue the command: /share/counter/counter-install

This will install the counter program and create an example file called counter-example.html containing further instructions.

NOTE: you can use /share/counter/counter-remove to uninstall



• Text SSI Counter
11 hits since Nov 13, 1966

1. Telnet to sharedhosting.net and log in

2. Change to your public_html directory (cd ~/public_html)

3. Issue the command:
mkdir ~/public_html/counters; chmod 777 ~/public_html/counters

4. Include the following SSI directive in your .shtml document in order to display the hit counter:
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter"-->

5. You may have to turn on SSI processing in your html directory. You can do this by creating a file called .htaccess (in the same directory as the html file containing your counter) containing the line:
Options ALL