[Joomla] Repeated 404 Not Found hits

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    Hi,

    I have Joomla 1.0.15 installed and have set .htaccess to direct 404 errors to my custom Joomla error page (a Joomla static content page). I recently checked and the 404 error page had like 137,000 hits. I knew that this was being caused by a bot because even my most popular site articles don't have those hits. So I ran several link checkers to find out what links were causing 404. Pretty much all the checkers returned 404 errors on these pages on my site (http://pcwizcomputer.com):

    Category index - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=4&id=17&Itemid=45
    Category index - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=4&id=19&Itemid=46
    Category index - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=4&id=20&Itemid=47
    Category Index - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=21&Itemid=48
    Static content page - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=49
    Front page item - http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=1

    The category indexes are major pages and they work fine when viewed with a browser but when I use the link checker it says that the pages are 404 Page not Found. And tons of the links WITHIN the category indexes return 404 when using a link checker as well. I am using the default joomla robots.txt. What could be wrong here?

    Thanks in advance
    pcwiz
     
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  2. Nick252

    Nick252 Well-Known Member

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    you have installed any sef component?
     
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  3. pcwiz

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    Yeah, I installed the sh404sef component but I uninstalled it like 5 minutes after installing. Could there be aftereffects from installing the component? I disabled SEF and uninstalled the component though.

    EDIT: I looked in my MySQL Table and there are several SEF tables left over from previous installs:

    jos_opensef_config
    jos_opensef_sef
    jos_opensef_sef_component
    jos_opensef_sef_site
    jos_sh404sef_aliases
    jos_sh404SEF_meta

    I am not using either openSEF nor sh404sef at the moment, so I think its safe to drop the tables. Would dropping these tables help?
     
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    i have 404 Not Found problem some times with sh404sef, but if you uninstalled the problem will be somewhere else
     
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    OK, so what should I do now?

    Thanks
     
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    Oh, and BTW I don't know if this helps but I used WebBug to check the HTTP status codes for the so called 404 URLs above. With HTML 1.0, they returned 404. But with HTML 1.1, they returned a 200 OK. Weird...

    EDIT: I found out something else. I set up a tracker on the 404 page to send me an email with the 404 details and I got this:

    Requested Page: /MarkAny/Websafer/MaSiteInfo.ini
    Referred By: Unknown
    Remote Addr: 59.10.114.5 ()

    Meaning some bot requested "/MarkAny/Websafer/MaSiteInfo.ini" on my site...this seems irrelevant but it has to do with the 404's so I thought I'd throw this out there :)
     
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