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by davedel 1 view

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I thought I had read somewhere that you could somehow edit the W3C log file in IIS4 to Not record
images loading on the web site and just log the pages. Is this possiable and if
so, how? The images entries increase the log file size alot and do not serve much
use.
Thanks Dave,,

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by edward clint

I do not believe this is possible.

To reduce log file sizes you can mull the other W3C options in the IIS config and turn off what you dont need, like maybe win32 status etc..,

What you might be thinking of, are web log parsing utilities suchas WUsage or Web Trends. These programs will parse the log files themselves and produce coherent reports based on them- and they can ignore any kind of file you want them to. For web telemetry/troubleshooting they work fine. But they dont help with log file size problems.

-Ed

by davedel

I found out that you can select to or not to "Log" a directory's content with-in IIS. So if all the images get placed in one folder you select not to log that folder and they don't get aded to the log file.
Thanks Dave,,

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