> > Hi, I want to reduce only the distinct hosts served number in the
> summary
> > report to exclude those hosts that request files out of my images
> directory
> > from a remote site ( graphical links to my site being served by me
> on
> > other peoples sites ). I tried adding the following to my analog.cfg
> > file:
> >
> > FILEEXCLUDE /home/httpd/html/images/*
> >
> > but the distinct hosts served does not change when I rerun the report.
> > I estimate it should be about half once requests to the images directory
> > are excluded. Any ideas?
>
> No. If you aren't hosting images to your site, then the hosts need
> to get links
> to those images from your HTML pages. So those hosts are loading the
> HTML
> pages. When they request the images (if they are really hosted on a
> different
> site) then that site's server logs the request not yours.
>
>
> Jeremy Wadsack
> Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
I guess I did not explain it right. This is what is happening. Lets say
Yahoo put a graphical link to my site on their homepage but did not download
my graphic, they linked directly to it. When a visitor loads Yahoo's
page, a request to *my* server for the graphic is made and logged in
*my* log file even though the requester does not visit my site.
Anyway, I am trying to exclude these image requests from the distinct
hosts served total. I figured if I used the FILEEXCLUDE it would work
but it did not change the number of distinct hosts. Hope I explained
it a bit better this time.
PS - I know and don't mind that a FILEEXCLUDE will also exclude the number
of hosts reported that request images who happen to actually be at my
site.
John
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