html - text file question

frustrated1 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-20-2005

Hi - not sure if this is the correct forum but maybe you can help all the same.
I have an ascii file on my server that I log events to..

I have samba and apache running on this server also - although I am not currently using them and have just started them up. They both appear fine so far.

I want to display a basic html page that will display the contents of the ascii file and refresh every 60 seconds...
Can anyone get me started? I have little experience of HTML but am okay on shell scripting etc...

itzcoolbuddy · #2 (**permalink**) 09-20-2005

I think you can do this using

shell scripting and html

In html you can use the meta tag for refreshing the page

Hope this helps

Regards,
Jags

frustrated1 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-21-2005

Can anyone help with some sample html for this?

RishiPahuja · #4 (**permalink**) 09-21-2005

dynamically prepare 1.html every 60 seconds with latest body content of 1.html

1.html should look something like this

<html>
<head><title>....</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60";
URL="http://xyz.com/1.html >
</head>
<body>

Here will come the file content prepared dynamically

</body>
</html>

regards,
rishi

frustrated1 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-21-2005

Okay - is there any way to tell the html page when it refreshes to re-read the entries from the log file?

I suppose that the update the html content with a script will do it I was just wodnering if there was anything a little bit more intelligent to do with this here...

RishiPahuja · #6 (**permalink**) 09-21-2005

Using server scripts to create the page by reading from a file what you require can be done, now how you will read the log file depends which scripting language you are using,it could be either asp,php or whatever

rishi

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