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I have 647 search bots on my site right now - each one of them indexing non-existent URI's! After 7 years of being in the ...

  1. 02-28-2005, 06:28 PM #1
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    Angry Screwed Blued & Tattooed...

    I have 647 search bots on my site right now - each one of them indexing non-existent URI's! After 7 years of being in the #1 spot for 'Lenon' searches, I have moved to page 2 on Google, behind a tractor dealer, a has-been football player and fishing lures!

    LoL! How now brown cow? 10 years of building my site down the drain in a single day...
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  2. 02-28-2005, 06:32 PM #2
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    Bah! 685 bots now - 23,000+ page views today! This is totally out of hand...

    I gotta go put a stop to this!
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  3. 02-28-2005, 06:50 PM #3
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    They seem to be attacking vacuous links in my forums section, so...
    Code:
    #Deny access to forums and redirect back to themselves.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (forum)              [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{HTTP_REFERER}               [R=301,L]
    This seems to be thwarting them. Let's see how long it takes the situation to cool down...
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  4. 02-28-2005, 06:52 PM #4
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    Seems to have peaked at 697 bots...
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  5. 02-28-2005, 06:55 PM #5
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    Hahahaha! Those damn things must be freaking out. They're triggering 404's left 'n' right!
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  6. 02-28-2005, 06:57 PM #6
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    Heh! 586 and counting...
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    Solid 404's now! They might as well call it a day...
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    44... Whew!

    The 'fire' is contained. Now... figuring out what caused it...
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  9. 02-28-2005, 08:55 PM #9
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    You show up 7th & 8th on my google search for "lenon"
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  10. 02-28-2005, 09:03 PM #10
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    Looking at my logs, here's an example of the bogus URI's they were indexing:

    http://www.lenon.com/forums.html/forumsearch_id-unanswered-sid-e34e72a36528a194e82a2e5d0ed96edb.html

    The first question in my mind is, "Why weren't the bots getting a 404 when they tried to visit this link?" I don't have a folder called 'forums.html'...

    Hrm... I think I'll have a 'Red Dog' and ponder this situation. That usually helps...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron
    You show up 7th & 8th on my google search for "lenon"
    Yep, I'm back up to 5th spot now, according to the search I just did. So, it's coming back a little at a time...
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  12. 02-28-2005, 09:15 PM #12
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    Maybe your dual hyphen .htaccess thingy was picking it up and redirecting it to your homepage, or it was trying to get a 404 page and got redirected at that point?

    Just a thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron
    Maybe your dual hyphen .htaccess thingy was picking it up and redirecting it to your homepage, or it was trying to get a 404 page and got redirected at that point?

    Just a thought.
    Well, I finally figured out what happened. It was so obvious, upon reflection, that it came as a slap in the face...

    When I was updating phpBB, last A.M. (half asleep) I accidently deleted a bunch of arrays from my 'sessions.php' file. These arrays were part of a system that rewrites URI's in order to make them 'search engine friendly.' Half the system (mod_rewrite rules) were still in effect, in my .htaccess file, but there weren't any matching arrays in the 'sessions.php' file, so .htaccess was generating the bogus URI's. The 'search bots' picked up on it, thought they had hit the gold mine, and went to town...

    It should have been so obvious. In these situations, the first thing that should come to mind is the last thing you did, you know? In this case, upgrading phpBB to 2.0.13. However, in all the excitement, it escaped me.

    Anyway, I fixed the problem. As a sidenote, as soon as I opened the forums up, 99 bots were back on it immediately, like stink on sh!t. So, I redid the rule in .htaccess, making it more specific...
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    #Deny access to bad forum URI's and redirect back to referer.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forums\.html/.*            [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{HTTP_REFERER}                       [R=301,L]
    Hopefully, this will help call off 'the dogs'...
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  14. 03-01-2005, 10:32 AM #14
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    that's what you get for using phpBB :P (SMF is a better PHP forum IMHO)
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    Quote Originally Posted by mattsiegman
    that's what you get for using phpBB :P (SMF is a better PHP forum IMHO)
    Well, once again, it wasn't phpBB's fault. It was MY fault, doing a sloppy/rushed upgrade. Maybe that's why some ppl are down on phpBB - it's makes an easy scapegoat...

    To make things worse, the MySQL db got corrupted again last night and wouldn't repair. Tech services was still working in it when I went to bed. When I awoke, a few minutes ago, the db was totally blitzed (20-30 corrupt tables - a couple involving phpBB), but at least it repaired this time.

    All-in-all, not a good couple of days...
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