1 Topic by bleachga (edited by bleachga 2007-03-27 10:07)

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Topic: Weird 404 Error

I have a script which reports 404 errors, and I'm seeing this reported several times, almost always in the middle of the night:

    The URI which generated the error is: (myforumroot)/indeforum.php
    The referring page was: (myforumroot)/indeforum.php

whwere (myforumroot) is the correct root URL for my forums.

Otherwise, the site works great.  I searched through the source and can't find any mention of "indeforum".  Any ideas?

  • Smartys
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Re: Weird 404 Error

There is no mention of it: what script is this?

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Re: Weird 404 Error

The script is one that I wrote.  When Apache gets a 404 (page not found) error, I send the viewer to my script instead of the standard 404 error page.  My script (written in PHP) grabs the URI of the target page and the referring URI and reports it to me via email.  The purpose is that I'll find out about any broken links on my website.

I'll get about 1-5 of these emails (indeforum.php), and almost always in the middle of the night.  I'm thinking that it's spammers and they're looking for a page that belongs to phpbb or some other forum software.  It's just weird that the referring page is indeforum.php as well . . .

  • Smartys
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Re: Weird 404 Error

Indeed, sounds like someone faked it tongue