Brian Clifton wrote:
>OK, so as I am not trying to be clever and use specific reports, then
>all I need are HOSTEXCLUDE and REFEXCLUDE
>
>My thinking (hope) for using the later is that I want to see what
>external pages e.g. search engines are referring visitors to us.
In which case, you may find the REFSITE report useful, rather than
the referrer report
I think there may still be some confusion about what you want to do,
and what you need to do to achieve it.
Let's take these 2 imaginary log entries:
1.2.3.4 - - 12:34:56 GET /folder/page.htm 200 "http://mps.com/links.htm"
6.7.8.9 - - 06:54:32 GET /subdir/index.htm 200 "http://yahoo.com"
The first line is a link from your own server (mps.com - shortened to
keep everything on a single line) the second is an external reference
from yahoo.com.
HOSTEXCLUDE 1.2.3.4 will throw away the first line - Analog will
report only a single hit in your log, and 1 unwanted entry. The
request report will only show one request - the request for
/subdir/index.htm. The Referrer report will only show 1 entry, for
http://yahoo.com (assuming you've set your floor low enough).
If 1.2.3.4 resolves to user1.mps.com then HOSTEXCLUDE *.mps.com will
also throw away that line. (HOSTEXCLUDE http://*.mps.com won't do
anything at all, as far as I know - HOSTs won't match a string that
starts with "http://").
REFEXCLUDE http://mps.com/* will throw away the first line, and the
general summary will record 1 hit, and one unwanted entry. The HOST
report will only show one HOST - 6.7.8.9, because you have totally
excluded the entry from 1.2.3.4 (because it was referred from
http://mps.com)
REFREPEXCLUDE will just exclude the first line from the Reference
report, so the only entry on the REFERRER report will be yahoo.com.
The general summary will record 2 hits, and no unwanted entries. The
HOST report will show 2 hosts, the REQUEST report will show 2 files
were requested
Hope this helps.
Aengus
(By the way, please try to reply after the text you are quoting, rather than
before).
>
> Brian Clifton wrote:
>
> > Will HOSTEXCLUDE, HOSTREPEXCLUDE, REFEXCLUDE, REFREPEXCLUDE be enough to
> > eliminate all internal referrers/hosts from all reports/analysis or do I
> > need all the EXCLUDE commands e.g.
> >
> > DOMEXCLUDE, FAILREFEXCLUDE etc.
>
> The commands HOSTEXCLUDE, REFEXCLUDE, etc. remove all lines from the input
> that contain those values. So
>
> HOSTEXCLUDE http://www.mpswholesale.*
>
> Will remove all requests made from that host from ALL reports. Similarly,
>
> REFEXCLUDE http://www.mpswholesale.*
>
> Will remove all requests that were referred by the site. In essence it
> will leave only you 'entry pages' the pages people first came to (or typed
> in, or selected from bookmarks, etc.).
>
> The HOSTREPEXCLUDE, DOMEXCLUDE, REFREPEXCLUDE, etc. commands will remove
> those entries from the specified reports. So
>
> REFREPEXCLUDE http://www.mpswholesale.*
>
> Will remove all internal referrers from the referrer report. But will not
> remove traffic generated by those requests from other reports.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jeremy Wadsack
> Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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