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« on: May 20, 2008, 08:30:52 AM »
What kinds of things can I do to reduce the amount of stuff in my error log?

Since I moved my site most of the old files aren't there any more and my error log gets full in less than an hour.

I have some of the main pages up with a link to the new site but apparently people were linking deeper in all over. I know I still had some remote linkers hanging on even though it's been blocked for a long time.
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2008, 06:13:24 PM »
Quote from: Xena on May 20, 2008, 08:30:52 AM
What kinds of things can I do to reduce the amount of stuff in my error log?

Since I moved my site most of the old files aren't there any more and my error log gets full in less than an hour.

I have some of the main pages up with a link to the new site but apparently people were linking deeper in all over. I know I still had some remote linkers hanging on even though it's been blocked for a long time.


Hi Xena,
I will look into this. There are some other issues right now that have been taking up most of my time.

Bert
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 07:51:54 AM »
Hi Xena,
When sites change their content that usually will generate a lot of 404 errors. The problem there is that some search engines keep the now defunct pages/images indexed for seemingly forever. Not much you can do about that. Check the IP numbers that are looking for the missing pages. If those IP's repeat over and over you can of course deny that IP. The best tool I've found for investigating IP numbers is:

http://centralops.net

The Centralops "Domain Dossier" will give you a wealth of info about IP numbers if it's available.

Another thing you can do to help is to use a robots.txt file. The robots.txt file should be placed in your root public_html directory. Here's an example of a robots.txt file:

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /image1/
Disallow: /image2/
Disallow: /image3/
Disallow: /board/Smileys/
User-Agent: OmniExplorer_Bot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: RufusBot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: Gigabot
Disallow: /

In this example I am not allowing spiders to crawl my image directories. I'm also refusing them access to my forums Smiileys directory. And I am slamming the door totally on OmniExplorer, RufusBot, and Gigabot, as they are known ill mannered bots. However a robots.txt file will not keep out evil bots. They just blow right past it. For those IP deny is your friend.

~;-)

Bert
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