[analog-help] Advice on using includes or excludes

[Aengus]

At Monday, March 31, 2008 4:34 PM, Esposito, Richard 
<richard.esposito at boeing.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use Analog to count traffic on a ColdFusion internal news and events
> calendar site. There are dozens of different types of URLs captured
> within the log files, but the two kinds of pages I need to count --
> stories and calendar items --have URLs like this:
>
> STORIES:
> http://bnn.ids.web.boeing.com/index.cfm?content=story.cfm&id=5226&bu=11
>
> CALENDAR ITEMS:
> http://bnn.ids.web.boeing.com/index.cfm?content=include/event_calendar_s
> ite.cfm&region=4&site=49&event_id=11970
>
> Based on these URLs, what would be the best way to configure Analog to
> isolate just these 2 types of pages? I've tried a few approaches but
> haven't gotten consistent results. Thanks

I'd be inclined to use FILEALIAS to seperate those entries out in the 
Request Report.

FILEALIAS /index.cfm?content=story.cfm* story.cfm$1
FILEALIAS /index.cfm?content=include/event_calendar_site.cfm* 
calendar.cfm$1

(I'm assuming that the http://bnn.... part isn't in your log file. If it 
is, you can just put * before the /index.cfm part)

If you don't care about the additional parameters after the &, you can 
leave the $1 out.

Aengus