Get number of online users from apache

qmichiel

I was wondering of there is a way to get the number of online users from apache.
Since apache keeps track of the number of connections in a given time so it can refuse connections.
(to prefend DOS)

Does anybody know of this is posible and if so how?

Thanx anyway.
Michiel

qmichiel

Isn't there anyone who can say if this is possible or not??

theeper

You mean you want an apache child process count ?

qmichiel

I believe you call it like that yes.

The number of clients connected to apache

theeper

Not really sure what you mean. When a user opens a web page, Apache's main process spawns a child process to handle the request, there is no way to tell who that user is, or if it is a different user than the last one that requested the page.

I suppose you could write a shell script that does a ps and grep out the httpd processes. This would give you a count of the current apache processes. Not sure how useful this is though.

qmichiel

The thing I would like to do is make a who's online box that gives you the nr of people browsing my website.

I wanna do this without mysql or datafile.

I was just wondering of there is any way of doing this.

theeper

You would be better off to do this with PHP in your code, but you will have to store the results somewhere, in a file or a DB.

qmichiel

Yes offcourse I wanna do this with php.
But hope there is a way without mysql or datafile to do this.

theeper

You want a hit counter. You will have to store the results somewhere, either in a file or a DB. I don't know any other way.