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Server Log Oddity

Not a problem per se, but since it's phpdig related I suppose this is the best place for it.

I've noticed several entries in my server error log lately similar to the following:

Quote:

[error] [client 209.237.238.178] File does not exist: /path/to/search/text_content/7358.txt

That IP address resolves to crawl28-public.alexa.com, so the question is - Why would the Alexa spider be trying to crawl content from my phpdig text_content directory?

Hi. If directory listings were enabled at some point, then Alexa could have found the text_content directory so the bot is coming back to reindex.

Code:

> whois 209.237.238.178

United Layer, Inc. UNITEDLAYER-1 (NET-209-237-224-0-1)

                                  209.237.224.0 - 209.237.255.255

Alexa Internet ALEXA-INTERNET (NET-209-237-237-0-1)

                                  209.237.237.0 - 209.237.238.255

Otherwise it could be someone just trying to find a text file, who knows why as it's just text. Nothing in the PhpDig itself creates links directly to that directory.