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Sachin Kumar
Sachin Kumar

Reputation: 996

Getting lots of unwanted 404 logs in my website

From the past few months, i am facing issue of getting 404 errors that caused due to requesting some bad URLs. I have no idea from where these links came from. In website we don't have such links. Few examples are:

There are links like:

www.abc.com/definition/1333/text/javascript

www.abc.com/undefined

www.abc.com/twitter.json

The above are just samples, i am getting 100s of them daily with different keywords.

Had anybody experienced the same issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 178

Answers (1)

Filip Roséen
Filip Roséen

Reputation: 63832

If there is no way a regular (ie. human) visitor can reach those locations through links on your site you've got nothing to worry about.

There are many crawlers out there who searches the web for exploitable software. These crawlers jump from website to website using URLs they know will tell them if a certain application is running or not.

You should however be careful and double check so that you don't have a mark-up error or similar leading your visitors to 404s.

Always blame yourself before you blame someone else. One way to see if it's your fault is to start loggin the Referer header (to see what page lead up to the 404), even though that can be faked easily you'd still be faced with enough facts to rule out one or the other.

Upvotes: 2

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