slaterino Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hi, Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this question. I couldn't find the perfect forum for my question, but I'm hoping someone can help. Basically, I've been having problems with a site I manage, with the site going down regularly, 401 Forbidden error pages cropping up reguarly, as well as Server Configuration Error pages, although only ever sporadically. I've been trying everything to work out the issue but no luck as of yet. However, one thing that seems strange is the following messages that I'm getting in the access logs. Now, this shouldn't be a problem as Facebook often creates messages like these when it's accessing files from a server. However, there are thousands of messages like this that reference files that don't exist. Honestly, it's constantly trying to access .jpg files that don't exist, and so I suspect this is what's causing the server to keep crashing. Has anyone had anything similar to this before? comono.co.uk 173.252.88.88 - - [20/Nov/2015:13:13:46 +0000] "GET /uploads/2009/9/28/873128bf77.jpg HTTP/1.1" 403 379 "-" "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)" Thanks, Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php is facebooks bot, at one point in time that file most likely existed and is looking for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaterino Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hey, that's what I thought too. However, none of the files listed actually ever existed, which is why I think there has been some hacking at some point that is causing the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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