Getting rid of "Static file referenced by handler not found" from logs

Question

My logs are full with:

2011-04-22 13:30:02.251 /soc/content/images/melange-logo.jpg 404 0ms 0cpu_ms 0kb facebookexternalhit/1.0 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) 69.171.224.250 - - [22/Apr/2011:13:30:02 -0700] "GET /soc/content/images/melange-logo.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 0 - "facebookexternalhit/1.0 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)" "www.google-melange.com" ms=1 cpu_ms=0 api_cpu_ms=0 cpm_usd=0.000036 W 2011-04-22 13:30:02.250 Static file referenced by handler not found: soc/content/melange-logo.jpg

This is a known 404, we changed our url schema and that link isn't used anymore. I'm fine with it serving a 404. What I'm not fine with is the warning in my logs every time Facebook's bot hits that url, which it does about every 5 minutes, polluting my logs.

How can I get rid of this annoying warning?

app.yaml is at:

http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/browse/app/app.yaml.template

Answer 1

You could modify the regular expression for your static file to not match that specific filename. Alternately, provide a dynamic handler that returns a 404 for that path but doesn't log anything. Or, just re-upload the file.