Fixing Http referers

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

Ive noticed this problem in 2 versions of Nuke, 7.6 and 7.7. perhaps it spills over into other versions too.

The problem was, that you could see the url of the referer, but clicking on it would return a "page cannot be displayed", heres the fix for this:

Find this code:

Code:

and replace it with

Code:

Sorted.
Simple really. Not sure why it would want to use index.php?url= as it doesnt work.

Anyway, have a look. HTTPreferers might not be something you use much, but if you get it working, youll be suprised how interesting and useful it can be.

Support Mod Joined: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 1032 Location: UK

Is this in standard or patched?

I use 7.6 patched and have never had this problem.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 7:12 am

Looks like someone's unfinished modification.

oh yeah, I forgot about that ....
global $url;
if(isset($url)) Header("Location: $url");
Wink

I guess if you list your top referers on the front page this might help keep them from jumping off your page rank. Doesn't do much good in admin though.

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

Im using patched versions of both and thats where I found the problem. But Im not sure the referers.php file is included in the patch files, so Im guessing its standard nuke where the problem lies

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:33 am

Must be an error in the patched versions.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

Actually there is a purpose to it... it is to show the referrals coming from your index.php page, not your admin page. Smile

This was added in phpNuke 7.6 and should be working in the Patched files

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

oh, I knew thered be some reason but couldnt figure it out.
Thing is, after making this mod, I still get good data in there. and Im the only one into admin. Not sure If Ive understood you fully tho E, so could be wrong.

Im thinking about making a modded version of that file. Itd be really useful if it displayed times and IP addresses too, possibly even the landing page. any thoughts on this? havent tried yet, but I think Ive got the theory right in my head.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

Not sure what your question is

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

Lol, fair enough! Very Happy

Ill try again.

The referers.php file seems to list the sites a user clicked a link on and appeared at our site. Therefore, it seems safe to assume, that the link was to our site. Does it list the referers TO the INDEX.php or THE WHOLE SITE?

And the mods i want: rather than simply list the URL of the referer, Id also like the time, date AND the page on my site they were refered to.
How possible is this? I imagine Id need extra rows in the referer table for (atleast) Datetime and landing page. The Datetime I can handle, done it many times before, but, landing page?

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

Only tracks to those hitting your index.php

There are other addons that will track referrals, I believe to all pages on your site. Try MS_Analysis