Error Tracker Pepper

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 11, 2005 EST

I want to keep my error pages organized like this site/error/404/ Is there a possibility to change the code enabling a custom structure?

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 11, 2005 EST

Thats what I did. I was propperly referred and Mint logged the hit. But the Error Tracker Pepper didn’t recognize it. So, any suggestions?

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 13, 2005 EST

Well, I didn’t know how to name them so I used this scheme: “404 Page Not Found” (code + explanation)

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 12, 2005 EST

OK now, this is so weird! When I fill in the names, nothing is shown at all. When I leave one name blank, then it gives me a list of pages which cannot be missing or forbidden.

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 13, 2005 EST

Now this works great! But there’s another thing: Your screenshot shows the URL’s of the pages that weren’t found. Mine only show how much the error-page itself was visited. Is there Something I missed?

Posted by Alderete on September 13, 2005 EST

This is a great idea for a Pepper plug-in, highly useful. I think it could be even better if it helped you figure out where the bad links are located.

I.e., why not add a secondary line to each item, with a From label and the referrer. Basically, just like the From secondary line in the Pages section of the default Pepper.

Posted by Simon Zirkunow on September 16, 2005 EST

Sorry, it still doesn’t show the page that wasn’t found. I reinstalled it and now it’s not even logging the hits… This is so mean. I really like the plugin and would gladly use it. It just seems refusing to work on my server or configuration.

Posted by Colby Makowsky on September 17, 2005 EST

I’m experiencing behavior contrary to what i’d expect…

http://haveamint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=281

Posted by Andrew Jaffe on September 24, 2005 EST

Hi-

The download link still points to 1.04!

But anyway, thanks for the great work!

Andrew

Posted by Dan Philibin on June 08, 2008 EST

Hey Jeff, got a question for you. I’m using Mint for a WordPress-powered site. What’s the path to put in the .htaccess file so it recognizes the 404.php page in the theme folder? I tried /wp-content/themes/wpcandy3/404.php but that didn’t work.

Posted by James Revillini on July 31, 2008 EST

Hi Jeff. Love this plugin. I think you might have a bug, though. The Error Tracker is reporting that I have 437 hits to a certain file on my site which I moved a long time ago. Fair enough. But I added some logic to my 404.php page which will do an automatic redirect to the new correct page before the page fully renders, so I should have seen no further hits on the 404 for this page, yet the hits continue to grow. Incidentally, the URL in question is http://tunxis.commnet.edu/business/motorcycle_education.asp (notice the redirection that occurs).

So what I did to check on things was this: 1) copy the URL from the pepper’s front-end (same URL as above) 2) open phpmyadmin and open the mint db 3) execute the following sql:

SELECT resource, resource_title, referer FROM `mint_visit` WHERE `resource_title` LIKE '%HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found%' and resource = 'http://tunxis.commnet.edu/business/motorcycle_education.asp'

I get 2 returned results, not 437. I’ll investigate further, but let me know if my debugging logic is off.

Posted by James Revillini on July 31, 2008 EST

I think I’ve figured it out. I echo’d out the sql it was actually running to get these stats and it will be something like this:

 SELECT dt, referer, resource, resource_title,  COUNT( `referer` ) AS 'total'
FROM `mint_visit`
WHERE `resource_title` LIKE '%401 Unauthorized%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%403 Forbidden%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%500 Borked!%'
GROUP BY referer
ORDER BY 'total' DESC , 'dt' DESC
LIMIT 0 , 18

I may be reading it wrong, but I think this assumes that as long as the referrer is the same, it’s a hit on the same page. So when I look at my first returned result, the referrer is blank, but all those hits from the unknown referer are somehow attributed to the motorcycle page on our site. But the actual stats say otherwise.

Would this not be a better query to run for the Most Common tab?

 SELECT referer, resource, resource_title, COUNT( `id` ) AS 'total'
FROM `mint_visit`
WHERE `resource_title` LIKE '%401 Unauthorized%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%403 Forbidden%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found%'
OR `resource_title` LIKE '%500 Borked!%'
GROUP BY resource, resource_title
ORDER BY 'total' DESC
LIMIT 0 , 18

Also, in version 1.6, the referrers are not shown anywhere, so maybe we can just remove that from the query also.

What do you think?

Posted by Danny Boy on August 06, 2008 EST

Still having a hard time getting version 1.6 to work properly. Bizarrely it displays a small number of errors for 404’s from some weeks ago, but no other error codes, nor any recent errors. It’s like it’s frozen in time.

Also, when I deviate from the single error code naming convention within preferences, it goes blank. In preferences, when you enter 404, it displays errors, but when you write 404 File Not Found it fails to work.

Posted by James Revillini on August 09, 2008 EST

Danny, The string that you need to enter depends on what the title of your 404 page actually is. If I go to your website, for example, and I type a bogus URL like http://www.dareusa.com/notreal, the title of the page is ‘DARE+company: be brave.’ This would not be so good if you were using Mint to track your 404 errors because there is nothing in the title to suggest that I’ve landed on a 404 page. The error tracker compares what you enter in preferences to the page title, and it uses wildcards on both sides of what you enter. So let’s say you had a title of “Oh, Crap! You just got 404’d,” then a string of ‘404’ in preferences would register it as an error and show in the tracker. But, if you entered ‘404 Page not Found,’ then it would not match - hence the ‘frozen in time’ issue.

Likewise, if you wanted your ‘50x Internal Server Error’ pages to be tracked, the string in preferences for that one would have to match some of the title of the 500 error page.

Also, an important thing to make sure of is that you actually have the script tag pointing to mint on the error pages. I think you already do since it sounds like you were registering errors for awhile, but it’s worth a double-check.

Peace, Jim

Posted by Narada on October 12, 2008 EST

Any progress on Dan’s question? I have the same problem and the same question.

Posted by marcus on February 09, 2009 EST

I’m having some problems with this too.

-I’ve got Mint registering stats no problem -I have a custom 404 working using .htaccess as instructed and ‘404 error’ in the page title -I’ve added ‘404’ into the 404 error box in the prefs -The response header shows it as a 404 -The mint.js file is linked from the 404 page and 404 requests are being logged in Mint

I’ve not managed to get any error hits registered in Mint’s Error Tracker panel.

I’d be grateful for any light you could shine on my problem.

[Here’s a link to the site:] (www.classtelecom.co.uk)

Thanks Marcus