Minimal documentation for the web page counter on unix1:

(1) for each directory that has a page that will have a web counter on
it, type in these lines:

cat >> .htaccess
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm
ctl-d	(that's press cntrl+d)

chmod 644 .htaccess

(2) for each page that will have a counter, decide what form of counter
you want:

counter - generic text-based numeric counter (1, 5, 27, etc)
counter-ord - ordinal text-based counter (1st, 25th, 303rd, etc)
counterbanner - "banner" style counter - passes "counter" output to "banner"
so you get counts like this:

   #     #####   #####
  ##    #     # #     #
 # #          #       #
   #     #####   #####
   #    #             #
   #    #       #     #
 #####  #######  #####

counterbanner-ord - banner-style ordinal counter, like this:

   #     #####   #####
  ##    #     # #     #  #####   #####
 # #          #       #  #    #  #    #
   #     #####   #####   #    #  #    #
   #    #             #  #####   #    #
   #    #       #     #  #   #   #    #
 #####  #######  #####   #    #  #####

It's also possible to get a counter without a link back to the counter
home page - use counter-nl.  The only use I've had for this is when I
wanted to update a counter, but not display it on the page.

(3) Call the counter from within your web page.  Here's three examples,
the exec cgi line must be EXACTLY as typed, except for which counter
display is invoked:

(3A) - regular counter
The official web counter for this page says:
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter"-->

(3B) - counter with 'st' 'nd' 'rd' 'th' etc.
This is the
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter-ord"-->
time this page has been accessed since December 1, 1995.

(3C) increment the counter but don't display the count:
<!--
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter-nl"-->
-->

The <!-- and --> are HTML comments, so they's suppress the display of
what's between them, but the counter will still be activated. 

(4) test your page.

Finally:
All counts are kept in /var/tmp/access_count so you can look at them
whenever you want - but everyone can see your counts and you can see
everyone else's.  If you want to have the count removed or reset to
zero, e-mail me.

Doug Sewell, doug@cc.ysu.edu