Hey, This is defiantly going to sound wacko. I'm going to make my server also available from the internet. I know about the dangers that this creates yes, but i'm going to do it anyways. It is going to act as more of a website than what was originally intended. This will allow me to access all of my other scripts remotely as well. This makes everything much simpler, although of course i'm going to have to change the way my passwords are stored :P As this is now also going to be a website, that several of my friends will probably use (I have taught them a lot about batch and other languages, files will be a lot easier to share and send once i've set up the web server. (None of this is the problem by the way, i just want to confirm my unusual idea) I also know that there are many sites that offer a service to do this but I want to keep this as internal as possible. Has anyone got a script that will (Without some kind of counter) print a log of all the ip addresses that access what pages on my site so that I can keep a closer, yet further, eye on what my friends do? I know that I am probably not in the best position to be teaching anyone anything, but I was asked, and of course i'm always willing to help those in need :D I don't mind what languages it uses but MySQL is so darn confusing that I would prefer it didn't use a database. Thanks ahead, Atoru.

What you could do is have a main page with masked links to your content, and when you process the masked link, create a log with whatever data you need stored. As a basic example, <a href="mysite/mainpage?req=file1">file 1</a> <a href="mysite/mainpage?req=page1">page 1</a> When the handler receives the request, server up whatever you need using a header(...) <?php $req = $_GET["req"]; if($req === "file1") { // log user info header("Content-type: application/x-unknown"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=' . $file1); } else if($req === "page 1") { // log user info header("location: " . $page1); } ?> Something like that *may* suffice. I'm not that familiar with them, but another approach might be htaccess files. here's a tutorial for them. HTH uggg... I can't stand this "code" formatting here.

Thanks shutat. Sorry about my once again delayed reply. One of my friends had to go into hospital and I havent had a chance to get on, he is a little sore, but better now. Your responce seems to be somewhat along the lines of what im after. But you'll have to wait for me to read that tutorial you gave me. Thanks a heap, Ill get back to you. And sorry about not responding to your PM also. Sorry, im still kind of worried about this friend of mine... Thanks again shutat, for your vast knowledge of web development :)

Best wishes to your friend. :)