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      What does the different settings for crawl scope mean?

      This article describes the settings under Application details for web applications.

      Limit to URL hostname

      Examples:

      • Target set to:
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/
      • Scans:
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder1/
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder1/subfolder2
      • Doesn’t scan:
        • http://admin.yourbusiness.com/

      Limit to content located at or below URL subdirectory

      Examples:

      • Target set to:
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder1/
      • Scans:
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder1/
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder1/subfolder2
      • Doesn’t scan:
        • http://www.yourbusiness.com/subfolder3

       

      Explicit URLs to crawl

      Add explicit URLs to crawl outside your selected crawl scope. This means that these URLs will be crawled even though they are not linked from a page within your crawl scope.