"File not found" weirdness

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by wizardofx, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. #1
    I try to keep track of my 404 errors to make sure that
    my web site doesn't have any problems.

    I have been getting a lot of 404 hits for documents that
    are on my site, but they are either trying to get them
    from the root directory or non-existent subdirectories.

    And at least half of my reported 404 errors are
    " /`%20+%20bodyFrame%20+%20` "

    Anyone have any idea what this is all about?

    wiz
     
    wizardofx, Mar 29, 2008 IP
  2. mds

    mds Active Member

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    #2
    Have you checked some of the files yourself and see if the files are loading correctly. Or if they were currently moved to another directory then the links would also need to be updated accordingly.
     
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  3. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    I have searched carefully for such things, because of course
    I am trying to find errors in my site.

    The crazy thing is that there will be 20 to 100 documents with
    exactly the same number of attempts a day. All of the
    links on my website point to the correct directory.

    Which makes me think that it is a robot.

    best regards
    mark
     
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    kk5st Prominent Member

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    See which IP addys the requests come from. You might get a clue from that.

    cheers,

    gary
     
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  5. mds

    mds Active Member

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    Normally what i do is check that all my files are accessible from different Ips' with no problem, then the next thing is ignore it because i havent got the time to disturb myself about errors that causes confusion in my head.
     
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  6. Dan Schulz

    Dan Schulz Peon

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    I've seen this before. They're normally generated by bots. If they're that annoying (or otherwise clogging your server logs), just block the bots from your robots.txt file and/or block their IP addresses (or even entire IP ranges if necessary).
     
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    i think u have to use firefox...
     
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  8. Dan Schulz

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    Nope, no need to "have" to use Firefox at all.
     
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    I feel its batter you use Firefox and use valid firewall, and check it from 3-4 Ip's
     
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    You can use whatever browser you want. This has to be done on the server, afterall. (Though there are better means of accessing a server that don't involve them; but if you're not comfortable with the command line, you might as well give up should you try them.)
     
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    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    This is annoying. Yesterday I got over 1000 hits on these
    errors. Because they start with weird characters I can't
    target them. I am worried that the volume is getting
    high enough to mess up my statistics.

    best regards
    wiz
     
    wizardofx, May 8, 2008 IP
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    Jalpari Notable Member

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