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Troy Simpson wrote:
> I am using a content management system (called farcry) to manage and
> display web pages to the public. The URL includes an objectID
> parameter for each page. The URL for a page might look something like
> this:
> http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> OR
> http://www.domain.com/?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> I want to see how many time a URL with a specific objectID has been
> views. How do I do that in the analog config file?
> The best that I can come up with is:
> FILEINCLUDE objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> But that appears to not work. Am I doing something wrong?


Try looking at the documentation about ARGSINCLUDE and look within the
Request report for the figures being subitems of requests for the
associated files.

Hope this helps,

-Sean


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Troy Simpson <tdsimpson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using a content management system (called farcry) to manage and
> display web pages to the public. The URL includes an objectID
> parameter for each page. The URL for a page might look something like
> this:
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> OR
> http://www.domain.com/?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>
> I want to see how many time a URL with a specific objectID has been
> views. How do I do that in the analog config file?
>
> The best that I can come up with is:
> FILEINCLUDE objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>
> But that appears to not work. Am I doing something wrong?

Because the objectID occurs after the ?, it's an argument, not a file name.
http://analog.cx/docs/args.html

You could alias the argument into a filename - something like this:

FILEALIAS /?objectid=* /*
FILEALIAS /index.cfm?objectid=* /*

Aengus

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Thanks for the response. Please believe me, I have read the manual
several time over. The practical experience is what is killing me.

So, let me see if I understand this correctly.

The directive of: FILEALIAS /?objectid=* /*
would translate this: /?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
to this: /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36

And if I only wanted to report the number of times this page was requested:
/?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
then I would use the directive: FILEINCLUDE
/FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36

Am I on track so far?

Thanks, Troy

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Aengus <Analog07@eircom.net> wrote:
> Troy Simpson <tdsimpson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using a content management system (called farcry) to manage and
>> display web pages to the public.  The URL includes an objectID
>> parameter for each page.  The URL for a page might look something like
>> this:
>>
>> http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>> OR
>> http://www.domain.com/?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>>
>> I want to see how many time a URL with a specific objectID has been
>> views.  How do I do that in the analog config file?
>>
>> The best that I can come up with is:
>> FILEINCLUDE objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>>
>> But that appears to not work.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Because the objectID occurs after the ?, it's an argument, not a file name.
> http://analog.cx/docs/args.html
>
> You could alias the argument into a filename - something like this:
>
> FILEALIAS /?objectid=* /*
> FILEALIAS /index.cfm?objectid=* /*
>
> Aengus
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Troy Simpson <tdsimpson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Please believe me, I have read the manual
> several time over. The practical experience is what is killing me.
>
> So, let me see if I understand this correctly.
>
> The directive of: FILEALIAS /?objectid=* /*
> would translate this: /?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> to this: /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>
> And if I only wanted to report the number of times this page was
> requested: /?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
> then I would use the directive: FILEINCLUDE
> /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>
> Am I on track so far?

I was going to say yes, but I decided to test it first, and I came across something that surprised me.

By default, Analog assumes that logs on a Windows system are case insensitive, and logs on a unix system are case sensitive. It handles the case insensitive situation by lowercasing everything.

BUT!!!

Items are only aliased once. So when you use FILEALIAS on Windows, you bypass the automatic lowercasing for that request, but the FILEINCLUDE command IS lowercased, so all of a sudden, you have a mismatch between /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36 and /feba5e7b-f1f6-975e-7040a72105801b36

In other words, if you're on Windows, you need to add "CASE SENSITIVE" to the analog.cfg file too, if you use the FILEALIAS technique.

On the other hand, if you just use
FILEINCLUDE /*?*FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36

then case isn't an isue, but you will probably also want
REQFLOOR 1r
REQARGFLOOR 1r

if you're doing your tests with one-line logfiles, and
DIRSUFFIX index.cfm
PAGEINCLUDE *.cfm

might also be useful.

Aengus

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The logs are from an IIS Windows server, but I'm running Analog on a
RedHat Linux Server. I had the directive case set to insensitive.
That was counter intuitive.

CASE INSENSITIVE

When I check my setting, the objectID was converted to lowercase.
Including (+) and excluding (-) the following files:
All excluded, then
+ /*0847dda0-f261-59bf-faa04eb1ec032b61

How come this directive works:
FILEINCLUDE /*?*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61

But this directive does not work:
FILEINCLUDE /*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61

Why do I have to have stars (*) on both sides of the question mark?

?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aengus <Analog07@eircom.net> wrote:
> Troy Simpson <tdsimpson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the response.  Please believe me, I have read the manual
>> several time over.  The practical experience is what is killing me.
>>
>> So, let me see if I understand this correctly.
>>
>> The directive of:  FILEALIAS /?objectid=* /*
>> would translate this:  /?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>> to this:  /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>>
>> And if I only wanted to report the number of times this page was
>> requested: /?objectid=FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>> then I would use the directive:  FILEINCLUDE
>> /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>>
>> Am I on track so far?
>
> I was going to say yes, but I decided to test it first, and I came across something that surprised me.
>
> By default, Analog assumes that logs on a Windows system are case insensitive, and logs on a unix system are case sensitive. It handles the case insensitive situation by lowercasing everything.
>
> BUT!!!
>
> Items are only aliased once. So when you use FILEALIAS on Windows, you bypass the automatic lowercasing for that request, but the FILEINCLUDE command IS lowercased, so all of a sudden, you have a mismatch between /FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36 and /feba5e7b-f1f6-975e-7040a72105801b36
>
> In other words, if you're on Windows, you need to add "CASE SENSITIVE" to the analog.cfg file too, if you use the FILEALIAS technique.
>
> On the other hand, if you just use
> FILEINCLUDE /*?*FEBA5E7B-F1F6-975E-7040A72105801B36
>
> then case isn't an isue, but you will probably also want
> REQFLOOR 1r
> REQARGFLOOR 1r
>
> if you're doing your tests with one-line logfiles, and
> DIRSUFFIX index.cfm
> PAGEINCLUDE *.cfm
>
> might also be useful.
>
> Aengus
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On 11/3/2009 7:38 PM, Troy Simpson wrote:
> The logs are from an IIS Windows server, but I'm running Analog on a
> RedHat Linux Server. I had the directive case set to insensitive.
> That was counter intuitive.
>
> CASE INSENSITIVE
>
> When I check my setting, the objectID was converted to lowercase.
> Including (+) and excluding (-) the following files:
> All excluded, then
> + /*0847dda0-f261-59bf-faa04eb1ec032b61
>
> How come this directive works:
> FILEINCLUDE /*?*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61
>
> But this directive does not work:
> FILEINCLUDE /*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61
>
> Why do I have to have stars (*) on both sides of the question mark?

Because 0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61 is not a file name, it's an
argument to index.cfm.

Aengus
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Possible Solution:

I don't understand why yet, but this appears to get me closer to what I want.

ALL OFF
ALLCHART OFF
REQUEST ON # Enable the Request Report
REQCOLS NRr # Enable these three columns in the report

# The following lines is a sample of the lines included via a
CONFIGFILE directive (232 in all).
FILEINCLUDE /*?*035E592F-FA2A-267B-5AF64F16D156031F
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03DA02E6-FF9C-FE0B-37856AF28E60357A
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03DA0008-F3ED-1110-1AB00948167C27F2
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03D9FE43-BCE3-8680-163785D70C2B83FF
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03D9FCBC-9E27-9E66-BD24D89F3463E89F
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03D9FB16-B382-47B9-1A1538C833BA0EAB
FILEINCLUDE /*?*03D9F9AF-A665-0FFE-4429F3C56B4B5AB2
FILEINCLUDE /*?*035E5920-BCA0-D364-936C15CC46CC409A
etc.

REQFLOOR 1r
REQARGSFLOOR 1r
REQINCLUDE /* # This line was important. But I am not sure why. The
Request Report would return 0 request with out this line.

# The following lines are a sample of thelines included via a
CONFIGFILE directive (232 lines in all).
REQALIAS REGEXPI:035E592F-FA2A-267B-5AF64F16D156031F "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03DA02E6-FF9C-FE0B-37856AF28E60357A "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03DA0008-F3ED-1110-1AB00948167C27F2 "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03D9FE43-BCE3-8680-163785D70C2B83FF "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03D9FCBC-9E27-9E66-BD24D89F3463E89F "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03D9FB16-B382-47B9-1A1538C833BA0EAB "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03D9F9AF-A665-0FFE-4429F3C56B4B5AB2 "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:035E5920-BCA0-D364-936C15CC46CC409A "[Page Title Here]"
REQALIAS REGEXPI:03D9D2CE-C4B3-8BEA-6BC7CA151D443B03 "[Page Title Here]"
etc.

I appreciate if someone could help me understand these directives
better and how analog process them. I have read the documentation a
number of time, but I'm still missing some things.

Thanks for all the help.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Aengus <analog07@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 11/3/2009 7:38 PM, Troy Simpson wrote:
>>
>> The logs are from an IIS Windows server, but I'm running Analog on a
>> RedHat Linux Server.  I had the directive case set to insensitive.
>> That was counter intuitive.
>>
>> CASE INSENSITIVE
>>
>> When I check my setting, the objectID was converted to lowercase.
>> Including (+) and excluding (-) the following files:
>>  All excluded, then
>>  + /*0847dda0-f261-59bf-faa04eb1ec032b61
>>
>> How come this directive works:
>> FILEINCLUDE /*?*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61
>>
>> But this directive does not work:
>> FILEINCLUDE /*0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61
>>
>> Why do I have to have stars (*) on both sides of the question mark?
>
> Because 0847DDA0-F261-59BF-FAA04EB1EC032B61 is not a file name, it's an
> argument to index.cfm.
>
> Aengus
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Troy Simpson <tdsimpson@gmail.com> wrote:

> FILEINCLUDE /*?*035E592F-FA2A-267B-5AF64F16D156031F

> REQINCLUDE /* # This line was important. But I am not sure why. The
> Request Report would return 0 request with out this line.

Do you have REQINCLUDE pages anywhere in your config file? None of the entries captured by your FILEINCLUDE would be recognized as pages by default, so they wouldn't show up if you were only including Pages in the Request report.

As I suggested yesterday, adding
DIRSUFFIX index.cfm
PAGEINCLUDE *.cfm
should address this issue, as the .cfm files would be recognized as pages.

> # The following lines are a sample of thelines included via a
> CONFIGFILE directive (232 lines in all).
> REQALIAS REGEXPI:035E592F-FA2A-267B-5AF64F16D156031F "[Page Title
> Here]"

> I appreciate if someone could help me understand these directives
> better and how analog process them. I have read the documentation a
> number of time, but I'm still missing some things.

Spend less time reading the documentation, and more time running Analog with simple test files, and seeing how changes you make to the configuration change the output. It's really the quickest way to understand what's happening - you can make a change and run Analog in 10 seconds, rather than waiting a couple of hours for an response from the list.

REQALIAS is an "output alias" - it simply changes what is displayed in the Request report. The change only occurs in the output, the actual data itself isn't modified. That means that if you REQALIAS two different lines to the same thing, you still have 2 entries in the Request Report, whereas if you FILEALIAS the same lines to the same thing, you only get one line in the Request Report, and the number of requests is the combined number of requests for both lines.

Because your website uses "non-human readable" URLs for it's pages, REQALIAS is a good idea, because you can modify the actual information displayed in the Request report to reflect the real page displayed. so you might have

REQALIAS 035E592F-FA2A-267B-5AF64F16D156031F "Green Widgets"
REQALIAS 03DA02E6-FF9C-FE0B-37856AF28E60357A "Blue Widgets"
REQALIAS 03DA0008-F3ED-1110-1AB00948167C27F2 "Shopping Cart"
REQALIAS 03D9FE43-BCE3-8680-163785D70C2B83FF "Privacy Notice"

(Note that the REGEXPI isn't necessary - you haven't specified a Regular expression). Your Request Report would then show the number of requests for Blue Widgets, the Shopping Cart, etc, and, if you used the PAGEINCLUDE comamnd above, the entries should be clickable (you might need to specify the BASEURL too).

Aengus

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