How to stop somebody trying to access something not there?

JakeSee · June 16th, 2007, 11:23 PM

I've been getting alot of 404 from this message. Everyday I recieve many of the same message in my error log and because i configured 404 errors to be emailed to me, I get loads of emails and very irritated.

[Sat Jun 16 21:54:53 2007] [error] [client 74.52.236.194] script not found or unable to stat: /home/vuox02c/public_html/member.php

I never had this member.php in the past at all. Is there anyway I can trace down the guy behind the IP and tell him to stop botting?

I think one possibility could be I signed up something at some website with my URL then TOS says I need to put a member.php in root for them to verify? But which service does that? Anyone any clue? I don't remember anything like this.

**removed** · June 17th, 2007, 2:00 AM

Honestly, I don't see the point of bothering with this -- you are always going to get requests for files that aren't there; most of them are simply bots looking for exploitable files.

Why not just disable the "404 emails"? They're clearly not helping anything.

mgk · June 17th, 2007, 3:35 AM

or just place a members.php file or htacess entry there that returns a redirect to a nonexisting domain - that way you keep you exisiting functionality - keep the logs 'clean' and save serverload/bw

June 16th, 2007, 11:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
JakeSee Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Jun 2005 Lives in Singapore Hosted on Pass15 120 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 0 times	How to stop somebody trying to access something not there? I've been getting alot of 404 from this message. Everyday I recieve many of the same message in my error log and because i configured 404 errors to be emailed to me, I get loads of emails and very irritated. [Sat Jun 16 21:54:53 2007] [error] [client 74.52.236.194] script not found or unable to stat: /home/vuox02c/public_html/member.php I never had this member.php in the past at all. Is there anyway I can trace down the guy behind the IP and tell him to stop botting? I think one possibility could be I signed up something at some website with my URL then TOS says I need to put a member.php in root for them to verify? But which service does that? Anyone any clue? I don't remember anything like this. __________________ Regards, Jake See Pass15: http://www.vuox.com

June 17th, 2007, 2:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
removed Surpass Abuse Admin Super #1 Joined in Mar 2005 Lives in Houston, TX Hosted on NONE 7,797 posts Gave thanks: 11 Thanked 278 times	Honestly, I don't see the point of bothering with this -- you are always going to get requests for files that aren't there; most of them are simply bots looking for exploitable files. Why not just disable the "404 emails"? They're clearly not helping anything. __________________ Unofficial IRC Channel: #surpass EFNet Unofficial = No official support. Support requests can be submitted to our helpdesk.

June 17th, 2007, 3:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
mgk Registered User Excelling Contributor Joined in Mar 2007 Lives in Wales Hosted on dime999 620 posts Gave thanks: 47 Thanked 46 times	or just place a members.php file or htacess entry there that returns a redirect to a nonexisting domain - that way you keep you exisiting functionality - keep the logs 'clean' and save serverload/bw __________________ Markus

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