Re: [Summary-Talk] Problem with Groups/Goals/Ads Not Being

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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:20:15 -0500
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On 12/7/04 10:03 AM Michelle A. Hoyle (mahlist@transcena.com) wrote:

>Summary 2.3.11 SP

You should update to Summary 2.3.14 at 
<http://summary.net/updates.html#2X>. I don't think that it will 
specifically solve your problem, but it is always best to have the most 
recent version, just in case, before spending too much time tracking down 
a problem.

>I used the following:
>
>Group:
>  /index.html?s=google
>Ad:
>  /index.html?s=google
>Goal:
>  /index.html?s=google

You should check your Content reports and make sure that requests that 
look like that appear in the reports. The pattern you enter for Group, 
Ad, and Goal, are matched against the strings that appear in the Content 
reports, if they aren't in the Content reports, then they won't work as 
Groups, Ads, or Goals.

>In Miscellaneous:
>User log format is: HOST SKIP USER DATE-CLF 
>domain FULL-REQUEST STATUS BYTES IF-EOL REFERER 
>AGENT EOL
>
>If I check the log files for that domain, I can see requests which look 
>like:
>SomeDomain.com - - [01/Nov/2004:06:09:46 -0700] 
>"GET /index.html?s=google HTTP/1.1" 200 13229 
>"http://web.ask.co.uk/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.co.uk%2fuk%3fq%3dHOW%2
> . . .
>BAAA%26num%3d3!& 
>qte=0&o=0&rb=1&di=http%253a%252f%252fwww.key-strategy.com%252f" 
>"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 
>5.1; SV1)"

That log entry does not match that log format. This is an NCSA Combined 
log line, it doesn't have the "domain" field specified in that log 
format. The log entry should be read by Summary anyway, since the user 
log format doesn't match, Summary will try it's built-in formats, which 
will work.

>In overall options (so not domain-specific ones), I have:
>Include query string in requests: › (on)

Given that this setting is on, the log entry above should result in a 
request for "/index.html?s=google", which should match your Group, Ad, 
and Goal patterns above.

>What am I doing wrong here?  Any ideas?  I can 
>send over a full configuration file if that will help.

I don't see anything that would be causing your problem in what you sent. 
Perhaps you should send your configuration file to me directly at 
<jason@summary.net>, so I can take a look at it.

Good Luck
Jason

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