[Aide] confusion in configuring AIDE on Debian 8x

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

I am very new to AIDE and old to Debian linux world. i hope you guyz do not
mind any newbie question.
actually i am trying to understand the working of AIDE but failed. because
every tutorial i found so far is related to different destro then Debian.
all other destros has one conf file.

/etc/aide/aide.conf

and Debian generated a file somewhere in
/var/path/to/aide/aide.conf.autogerenate.


it is written in autogenerated conf that any change that is made to this
file will be overwrite.
now the problem is i do not want whole system check. rather a folder which
is /var/www  and another folder /home/anyuser.

so how can i manage to achive this result.
i added "!" at the beginning of every folder except /var like below in file
/etc/aide/aide.conf


!/bin
!/boot
!/dev
!/etc
!/home
!/lib
!/lib64
!/media
!/mnt
!/opt
!/proc
!/root
!/run
!/sbin
!/scripts
!/srv
!/sys
!/tmp
!/usr
/var/www InodeData
!/var


now i follow steps like this

Step1
#aideinit
now i edit a file in /var/www

Step2
# aide -c /etc/aide/aide.conf --check
above command give me this output.
AIDE 0.16a2-19-g16ed855 found NO differences between database and
filesystem. Looks okay!!
blah blah blah............


this means no change of file or update has been found. but this is not
true.because i have manually change the file by my self.

I know i am doing mistake somewhere can you please guide me what i am doing
wrong.

any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
yousuf
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