Confused about a tutorial on hosting urchin.js locally | Assistance appreciated!

Looks like you need access to your server with that tut. Basically though all you need to do is save the .js file somewhere on your server. Then go to your control panel, if you have controlPanelX then it makes things a lot easier. Somewhere in your control panel you should have a cron jobs tool.

With the cron jobs tool you set the file you want it to run and how often you want to run it.

I do have cPanel X though.

I guess you need to add a cron jab using CPanel using the built in menu provided in CPanel. Add it to the timespan the tutorial says.

Check these images -
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3320/crongu2.jpg
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/6537/cron1ul1.jpg

'Cept your shell script probably won't be called "/home/users/websites/urch.sh". Hostgator uses /home/your-account-name as your home directory and if you've saved urch.sh in a subdirectory you'll have to account for that too, so you'd have to change /home/users/websites/urch.sh to /home/your-account-name/path-to-file-if-applicable/urch.sh

Also, make sure you change permissions on urch.sh to make it executable (you can do that through the Cpanel file manager) or cron won't be able to run it! And, you'll need write permission on the directory where the .js file is being written. Your cron entries should run under your user ID so setting these permissions for "user" only should work.

The command shown will suppress error output. If things don't seem to be working and you need to debug, log the output to a file somewhere in your account by changing /dev/null to /home/your-account-name/some-writeable-directory/foo.log. Then after the job runs, all error and standard output will be in foo.log.

Does that make any sense?

Thanks! That's the latter part that cleared up a bit.
But what do i need to do to create a shell script?

Do i need to save the code into a Notepad file and call it urch.sh ??
You know just like a .htaccess file?

Also what i don't understand by reading the partial URL in the tutorial is why it needs to be uploaded so deeply?

11 12 * * * /home/user/websites/urch.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

It's three folders deep?

Is there a special reason for this? or could it also be done by doing it like this:

11 12 * * * /public_html/analytics/urch.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

To recap:
So i can create a folder like this: /public_html/analytics/urchin.js

^That is where i drop Google's code

Then create a folder like this: /public_html/analytics/urch.sh

Add this to my crontab:

/public_html/analytics/urch.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

But why is the first part of the line being left out? --> 11 12 * * *
(See screenshot 2) This should be added right?

And then drop this code at the bottom of my page code?:

<script src="/z/j/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-000000-x";urchinTracker();
</script>

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And that's it?

Edit:
Thanks for the reply Enlytend!
The only thing I'm confused about know is to add the 11 12 * * * part in the beginning? Because i didn't see that in the screenshot.

I presume it should so I'll give that a try and let you guys know how it works out

But why is the first part of the line being left out? --> 11 12 * * *
(See screenshot 2) This should be added right?

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Nope - that's added for you through the Cpanel interface when you specify the date and time.

What that part means is to run your job 11 minutes after 12, on every day of every month and any day of the week.

You can put your file in /public_html/analytics, but you need to preface it with /home/your-user-account because you need to give it the entire path to the script on the (in this case, shared) server. So it would be /home/your-account/public_html/analytics/urch.sh.

(unless Cpanel appends your home directory pathname to the command, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't).

Thanks for clearing that up!
I really appreciate your input guys :tu:

I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

What he shell script is doing is downloading the latest version of urch.js. This could be done via a php file and then ran via a cron job every so often too.

To do this you will need something like the code below in the php file. Then set a cron job to run that file every so often. Make sure the folder where you save the urch.js file has write permissions.