Url / match detection

hello

have been using bitwarden for years but this is my first post on the forum.

before getting to my question want to add that i was one of the users that was ‘outraged’ by the recent update, left a scathing chrome extension review, and deleted my account. however, i stumbled upon a great post by grb explaining how to use the autofill features and decided to give it another try. i came back, properly configured all the settings, and now i’m happier than i was before the update. apart from a few niggles with the interface, it’s actually much better than it was before. so good work bitwarden, and grb for your helpful post.

my issue this morning is fairly simple and i’m sure this will be easy to solve. i need to access five different sites with domains similar to this:

one.example.com
two.example.com

i’ve replaced company names with numbers, and switched the name of the technology platform’s host name with ‘example’. they all end with this.

if i go to one of these, it never matches, it seems to match with another of the five urls instead. i have tried changing them all to ‘starts with’ match detection but this didn’t quite do what i intended.

how do i get this to work?

(edited to show two example links as per new poster rules)

thanks

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Glad to have you back, @badwinter.

The first trick to realize is that one uses the match detection to “remove” matches just as much as one uses it to “add” matches.

If you are going to one.example.com, and you don’t want two.example.com on the list, it is the vault entry for two that you need to modify so that it no longer matches.

If you set them both like this, you will likely get what you want.

For each domain, please open the login item details in Edit mode, and doublecheck that you only have a single “Website (URI)” field saved in each item, and that its value corresponds to the URL of the domain that you are trying to match (e.g., three.example.com).

Also, as suggested by @DenBesten above, click the :gear: icon next to the URL, and then select “Host” from the dropdown menu.

Don’t forget to click Save after making any changes.

thanks both, ‘host’ works great.

i didn’t use ‘host’ initially because the examples in the documentation give the impression that this option is only intended for use when there is a port number. although, it does say ‘(if specified)’ so i get the intention of the documentation, and can now understand why ‘host’ is the correct option.

‘exact match’ also worked.