Hello, I started paying attention to the error stats in my AWSTATS for a new site that I manage. Not sure how serious these are, but I see many 404 errors and 206 "partial content" etc. Here is glimpse of what I get: [TABLE="class: aws_data, width: 100%"] [TR] [TD="align: center"]404[/TD] [TD="class: aws"]Document Not Found (hits on favicon excluded)[/TD] [TD="align: center"]1,022[/TD] [TD="align: center"]54.4 %[/TD] [TD="align: center"]376.84 KB[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="align: center"]301[/TD] [TD="class: aws"]Moved permanently (redirect)[/TD] [TD="align: center"]713[/TD] [TD="align: center"]37.9 %[/TD] [TD="align: center"]261.78 KB[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="align: center"]206[/TD] [TD="class: aws"]Partial Content[/TD] [TD="align: center"]129[/TD] [TD="align: center"]6.8 %[/TD] [TD="align: center"]2.09 MB[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="align: center"]302[/TD] [TD="class: aws"]Moved temporarily (redirect)[/TD] [TD="align: center"]10[/TD] [TD="align: center"]0.5 %[/TD] [TD="align: center"]160 Bytes[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="align: center"]500[/TD] [TD="class: aws"]Internal server Error[/TD] [TD="align: center"]3[/TD] [TD="align: center"]0.1 %[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] 301 redirects are fine. Not sure about what the others are and where they're coming from! As far as I know, I have no 302... No way I could have temporary removals. I don't see any 404 errors, as I have no broken links (checked already). What could generate the 206, 500 errors? 54.4 % of total errors is 404. But that takes above 1,000 hits. This means 1,000 occasions? 1,000 loads? I'd like to repair this, but I never get any 404's, it's a small site of about 30 pages, few images, all flat .htm, so I don't see any problem. No broken links. ...or am I getting something wrong from these stats? Please help. Thanks in advance for the gesture!
About 404 errors, check if your website pages include links to a missing image, javascript or css file. A quick grep of the log files will probably reveal most of the details.
A lot of scipt kiddies (wannabe hackers) scan various sites for obvious holes. They tend to egenrate a lot of 404 traffic as they look for certain URLs of popular off-the-shelf software. Like phpmyadmin. You need to check your error logs/ access logs for the web server to find which files are being requested. If you are using a control panel or a web host then you have to look at their help file to find where these logs are. the pattern of the traffic suggests you are being scanned. They are nothing to be afraid off but good to keep a lookout also on your admin pages to be sure someone hasnt gained access as well as regular logs (the 200) ones which can show you if someone is attempting to login repeatedly etc. a 302 is normal. again logs will tell you where they are exactly. 206 partial content - this is normal specially for large files/pages which is what you have based on the size of transfer versus hits . This can happen on servers that are overloaded or if the user trying to access has a very slow connection and server decided to terminate the connection. Nothing to be worried about unless you have a slow site which can be fixed.