404 Page Not Found

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:35 am

Anyone know what generates this error?

Quote:

/modules.php?name=ErrorDocuments&file=404&rs=images/loading.gif

"loading.gif" is nowhere to be found in any of my 2.3.0.1 installs.

Cheers

registered · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:46 am

Are you seeing this in your error logs or visually? I suspect it is in your error logs. I suspect it is some form of bot that is probbing your site and while it is trying certain things, it is generating 404 errors that are getting picked up by the error redirects in .htaccess. I get tons of these each day for links that have absolutely nothing to do with RN.

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:47 am

When and where is this error generated?

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:53 am

I've never seen the error myself. I noticed it when I was looking through the IP Tracking Log looking at a particular user applying for membership to one of my client's domains. That showed up as one of the links in the log of that user. More than once besides ...

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:55 am

Oh, it appears right after he loads a forum article, every time.

Edit: Also noted that I see this on several links looking at forum articles by other users but I don't see it on most log entries from others looking at the same articles.

registered · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:22 am

loading.gif is an image in the lightbox mod. I would assume it has something to do with when someone clicks the image that is in the lightbox.

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:31 am

I was thinking the same thing a bit ago. Problem is that LightBox is not enabled on that site although it IS installed. I'll have to do more investigating as time permits, like looking at the logs and seeing which articles are being looked at.

Could just copy it to /images/ .. Smile