> 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
OK, it looks like I should have REFERRER ON and REFSITE ON. My reason
behind using both is so that REFSITE ON will give me the Search Engine
address e.g. altavista.com, while REFERRER ON will give me the full url
including the query term e.g. altavista.com?search=a_keyword_phrase.
> I think there may still be some confusion about what you want to do, and
> what you need to do to achieve it.
Most probably, but you are definitly helping :-)
> 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"
>
> 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).
Something I thought could not be set... How do I alter the floor??
> 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://").
OK, I have changed my HOSTEXCLUDE *.mps.*, as for some sites we have
multiple domains e.g. mps.com, mps.net etc.
> 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)
It sounds like you are saying I don't need this if I use HOSTEXCLUDE
*.mps.*??
> 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
Ok, understood. I have removed this.
> (By the way, please try to reply after the text you are quoting, rather
> than before).
Hope you don't mind my mix 'n' match on this one??
Best rgeards, Brian
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