How to filter out traffic from subdomain using regex?
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Hi There,
We have a test server that lives on a subdomain which we'd like to filter out in Google Analytics.
We're using the hostname filter but are having trouble understanding the regex needed, we're using this as the filter pattern:
Will that work? The profile is new so we can't test the pattern. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
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Actually, I this we just put the hostname in there right?
A previous consultant had put a regular expression in there (the one from the question) but I suspect we just add the hostname.
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Or do we just put this into the field?
domain
Will simply find 'domain' anywhere?
Cheers
Ben
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Thanks Martijn, much appreciated.
It now looks like we're escaping the . (dot) - is that right? We're actually trying to match anything before and after 'domain' - to match any site on our test server.
Do we need something like this instead?
^domain.
Sorry I'm not understanding how this works - have read so many tutorials but can't figure out what the 'anything' character is?
Cheers
Ben
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Hi Ben,
This won't completely work as the . (dot) also has a function in Regular Expression which means it can be any single character. So what you need to do is escape that one. Then it will eventually become something like:
.*domain.com.
Martijn.
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