You should just be able to use +^http://www.mycity.gov/water/
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Robert Edmiston <robert.edmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Robert Edmiston <robert.edmis...@gmail.com> > Subject: Limiting crawls to subwebs > To: nutch-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:32 PM > I am trying to limit a crawl to just a subweb. I work for a > city government > and I have been asked to set up a seperate crawl that is > dedicated to just > our water department. So, if I were to run a crawl on > http://www.mycity.gov/water, how can I keep the crawl from > including > http://subdomain.mycity.gov or root URL's of > http://www.mycity.gov or > http://www.mycity.gov/xxx? I have tried going into the > crawl-urlfilter.txt > file and making the following entries, which have not been > successful: > > # accept hosts in MY.DOMAIN.NAME > +^http://([a-z0-9]*\.)mycity.gov/ > +^http://([a-z0-9]*\.)www.mycity.gov/ > +^http://localhost > > I am using a urls.txt file that just has the URL of > http://www.mycity.gov/water but it manages to crawl back to > the city > homepage from there and then do a full crawl of the entire > city website. > > Thank you in advance