Sitemap Creator includes a helper tool that can check to see if a given URL is a match for any rules in a project.
Opening the rule checker
- Select Rule Checker
from the Tools menu
Using the rule checker
- In the URL field, enter the address you wish to test. Alternatively, click the Browse button to choose any URL present in the current project
- Optionally, enter a MIME type into the Content Type field if you are using rules that match against types
- Set the Option field to either Include or Exclude to determine an overall result for the check
- Click the Test button to test the rule
The Results list shows all rules in the current project. For each rule, a status will be displayed showing how the rule was processed against the source URL.
In addition, an overall status is displayed that states if the given URL was matched against the specified option. You can use this status to determine if a URL will be correctly included or excluded from a crawl of the source website.
Key
Each rule will display one of four different states as outlined below.
Icon | Description |
---|---|
![]() | The rule was ran and was a match for the specified option |
![]() | The rule was ran and but was not a match for the specified option |
![]() | The rule was not ran as an earlier matched rule had the "Stop Processing" flag set |
![]() | The rule was not ran as it is disabled |
Example
In the above example, a sample project has 5 rules defined. When testing the URL http://forums.example.com/forum/lore/
against these 5 rules, the following results can be observed
- The first rule was a match
, setting the overall result to Exclude
- The second rule was not a match
- The third rule was a match
, setting the overall result to Include
- The third rule also has the Stop Processing flag set, so rules 4 and 5 were automatically skipped