hi folks

i have a shiny new dynamic website - unfortunately the download-system displays each image via a php script making basically every image on the website count as a pageview. is there a way to exclude a certain file from being counted as a pageview?

thanks for your help

what download system would be you talking about?

it's hard to tell without that info

regards

my own i use a php script that displays images like that:
[PHP]
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
while (!feof($fp))
{
echo (@fgets($fp, 4096));
flush();
}
fclose ($fp);
[/PHP]

to make long things short: i simply want to exclude a certain .php file to count as a pageview in urchin.

you got me, urchin illiterate here, try the technical notes or manual for urchin

regards

In the administration you have a filter manager under configuration. That should do what you need.

yeah i found that but i dont quite understand this. would it be possible to explain it? thanks alot!

I would review the urchin documentation for full explanation, but I think what you want is to add a filter by clicking the add button in filter manager. The filter type would be "Exclude Pattern", the field would probably be "request_stem" or "request_filename", and the pattern would be the file and/or path possibly with wild cards.

http://help.urchin.com should have an entire section on filtering.

thanks for your help
i created a exclude filter with request_filename and for filter pattern:


is this a correct if i want to exlcude all request via ssi_getmedia.php and ssi_getthumbnail.php?

thanks

Yes, I believe that should work. It is only looking at the filename with that variable so if you had another file named the same in a different directory it should block it as well. Of course I would test it some because I am just going off my memory.

seems to work - thanks for your help

the only problem that remains is, that thanks to the exclude filter this two files are totally ignored and therefore not being counted as traffic either... is there a way to excude this files only for the pageview measurement?