Help!! Why would I be getting 50,000 (302 error) redirects a day!!?

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  • Damian_Maxcash
    So Fucking Banned
    • Oct 2002
    • 12745
    #1

    Help!! Why would I be getting 50,000 (302 error) redirects a day!!?

    Its driving me nuts - Im not getting close to that traffic on the site so I dont think its to do with a couple of redirects in the htaccess file......

    Is there a way to see what this traffic is and see where its coming from and going to?

    Thanks
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    • squishypimp
      PostMaster General
      • Aug 2006
      • 10781
      #2
      check your AWstats or Webalizer to see were the errors are occuring.

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        • Damian_Maxcash
          So Fucking Banned
          • Oct 2002
          • 12745
          #3
          Originally posted by squishypimp
          check your AWstats or Webalizer to see were the errors are occuring.
          AWStats dosnt show them - it just gives you a count

          I havnt looked at Webalizer - I will try it now.

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            • GrouchyAdmin
              Now choke yourself!
              • Apr 2006
              • 12085
              #4
              Mentioning the site, and/or posting your htaccess might help.

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                • SmokeyTheBear
                  ►SouthOfHeaven
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 28609
                  #5
                  Originally posted by damian2001
                  AWStats dosnt show them - it just gives you a count

                  I havnt looked at Webalizer - I will try it now.
                  try looking at the last 300 visitors if you have that option in cpanel you should notice
                  hatisblack at yahoo.com

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                    • Chris
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • May 2003
                      • 27880
                      #6
                      download log files?
                      [email protected]

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                        • Damian_Maxcash
                          So Fucking Banned
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 12745
                          #7
                          Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
                          try looking at the last 300 visitors if you have that option in cpanel you should notice
                          After calming down (watching 50000 uniques disappear can have an adverse effect on your health)

                          It turns out its bloody search engine bots looking for a robots.txt file.

                          The bots have pulled over a gig of that server today - really strange.....

                          but at least Im not losing traffic.

                          Thanks guys

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                            • Tempest
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • May 2004
                              • 10217
                              #8
                              what type of site? tgp? running links thru a script?

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                                • Tempest
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • May 2004
                                  • 10217
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by damian2001
                                  It turns out its bloody search engine bots looking for a robots.txt file.
                                  Put an empty robots.txt file on there.. that's what I do.

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                                    • GrouchyAdmin
                                      Now choke yourself!
                                      • Apr 2006
                                      • 12085
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Tempest
                                      Put an empty robots.txt file on there.. that's what I do.
                                      Or, you know, actually make one.

                                      User-Agent: *
                                      Disallow: /sekret

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                                        • woj
                                          <&(©¿©)&>
                                          • Jul 2002
                                          • 47880
                                          #11
                                          look in the raw log files...
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                                            • Tempest
                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                              • May 2004
                                              • 10217
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by toonpornblog
                                              Or, you know, actually make one.

                                              User-Agent: *
                                              Disallow: /sekret
                                              true.. on the other hand, now every smart person can come along and pull up your robots.txt file and see you have this "hidden" sekret directory.

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                                                • GrouchyAdmin
                                                  Now choke yourself!
                                                  • Apr 2006
                                                  • 12085
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by Tempest
                                                  true.. on the other hand, now every smart person can come along and pull up your robots.txt file and see you have this "hidden" sekret directory.
                                                  That's what .htaccess/.htpasswd is for. A few sites penalize you for a 0 byte robots.txt; webcrawler is no longer so they don't count, but I know it still makes Yahoo unhappy.

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                                                    • Tempest
                                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                      • May 2004
                                                      • 10217
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by toonpornblog
                                                      That's what .htaccess/.htpasswd is for. A few sites penalize you for a 0 byte robots.txt; webcrawler is no longer so they don't count, but I know it still makes Yahoo unhappy.
                                                      Interesting.. I have a site that Yahoo seems to love and it's got a 0 length robots.txt file in there.

                                                      .htpasswd etc. is ok.. but it's even better when they don't even know where to look in the first place.

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