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Wusage 8.0 Manual
searchservertemplates Option
To reach this option in the configuration file editor,
follow these steps:
1. Edit Configuration
2. Configure Reports...
3. Search Server-Related Reports (Requires Referrers)...
4. Search Server Templates...
If you prefer to manually edit your configuration files,
use the following syntax for this option:
Example
searchservertemplates
altavista.com q= AltaVista
www.altavista.com q= AltaVista
altavista.digital.com q= AltaVista
www.altavista.digital.com q= AltaVista
altavista.yellowpages.com.au q= AltaVista (Australia)
www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au q= AltaVista (Australia)
end searchservertemplates
Description
The Search Server Templates (searchservertemplates) option is used to describe
how Wusage should recognize search keywords in referring URLs.
This is needed to allow the generation of the
Show Top Internet Search Keywords (searchkeywords), Show Top Internet Search Servers (searchservers), and
Show Top Search Keywords By Search Server Used (searchkeywordsbyserver) reports.
Each entry in the list of server templates contains three things:
a pattern matching the host name of the
server (see the Patterns and Regular Expressions
section), a prefix that appears in the referring URL immediately
before the search keyword or keywords, and a full name to be
used to identify the search server. Note that if two entries
in the server templates list have the same full name, accesses
matching both patterns will count as accesses to the same
server.
The provided example contains the correct values for the
Altavista (tm) search server as of 7/26/99. These and many
other common search servers will be automatically included
in any new configuration files you create through the
user interface. The correct values may change over time,
and there may be other major or minor search servers of special
interest to you.
Accelerated Patterns
Wusage analyzes log files most quickly when the search server templates
are simple web server names, not complex patterns. Of course, it can be
tedious to enter all possible variations.
For instance, the program
runs faster if you add separate templates for
altavista.com, www.altavista.com,
www.altavista.de, and so forth. But it is much
less work to add a single entry *.altavista.*.
Unfortunately, this slows the program down.
Beginning with Wusage 8.0, special accelerated patterns
are supported in search server templates. These accelerated patterns
provide the convenience of full patterns, but they are matched at
much greater speed. See the following example:
&dogsearch
This accelerated pattern will automatically match the partial name
dogsearch even if it is preceded by www., or
another computer name. Similarly, the pattern will automatically match
regardless of the national domain the site is in. This means that
www.dogsearch.com, www.dogsearch.co.uk, and
query.dogsearch.de can all be matched by this
single accelerated pattern.
Very Important: an accelerated pattern can contain
at most one dot. For example, these accelerated patterns are
acceptable:
&dogsearch
&search.mycorp
But this accelerated pattern is not acceptable:
&search.mycorp.etcetera
For more examples, create a new configuration file with version 7.1,
and then open it in the configuration editor.
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