Help with inclusion / exclusion patterns

mpressnall · Post by **mpressnall** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:22 pm

So I am setting up a webinator profile and getting my base URLs set:

http://my.site.com/tableofcontents/spec ... jects.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... eries.html

I have an inclusion rex of: /html/photogalleries/
and an exclusion rex of:
/html/
/text/
/APWires/
/cgi-bin

Basically, I want to exclude anything that lives in the /html/ directory with the exception that if it lives in /html/photogalleries/ it will get indexed.

So my two base URLs get parsed but the second one (allphotogalleries.html) has links like:
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html
http://my.site.com/html/photogalleries/ ... nails.html

And when I take a look at allphotogalleries.html in the edit/list URLs portion, it says that all of these children URLs are on the reject list.

I am assuming that the exclusion REX is more powerful than the inclusion REX.

Is there any way to accomplish what I want to do?

Many thanks,
Matt

mpressnall · Post by **mpressnall** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:30 pm

I tried that and ended up with:

000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/
000 /archive/vortex_root/webinator/dowalk(reject) 1342: Root REX expression cannot have a NOT operator. while processing url http://my.site.com/homes/

Here is how I have my it configured:
http://www.loki-adventures.com/webinatorConfig.jpg

How do I get the webinator configured so that it will ignore everything in the /html/ directory except photogalleries?

Post by **mark** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:00 pm

Minor syntax problem with the expression above:
>>/html/=!photogalleries=

But since your base url is under that directory you don't really need to do anything. It will stay under the hotogalleries directory automatically. Make sure you have the latest scripts from the website.