How to filter out traffic from subdomain using regex?

[cmscss]

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:

.domain.com.

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

[cmscss]

Actually, I this we just put the hostname in there right?

domain.com

A previous consultant had put a regular expression in there (the one from the question) but I suspect we just add the hostname.

[cmscss]

Or do we just put this into the field?

domain

Will simply find 'domain' anywhere?

Cheers

Ben

[cmscss]

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.

subdomain-one.domain.com

subdomain-two.domain.com

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

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

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.