[johan]

I've been looking through my error logs trying to eliminate them but there's one that's a bit of a mystery:

Code:

... File does not exist: /home/plat-linnas01/e/extreme-macro.co.uk/user/htdocs/insect-chilling-chamber/trackback, referer: http://extreme-macro.co.uk/insect-chilling-chamber/

The traffic pattern was:

Code:

61.182.139.70 - - [21/Jan/2014:09:09:20 +0000] "GET /insect-chilling-chamber/ HTTP/1.0" 200 15725 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727 ; .NET CLR 4.0.30319)"
61.182.139.70 - - [21/Jan/2014:09:09:21 +0000] "GET /insect-chilling-chamber/ HTTP/1.0" 200 15734 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) )"
61.182.139.70 - - [21/Jan/2014:09:09:33 +0000] "POST /insect-chilling-chamber/trackback/ HTTP/1.0" 404 5527 "http://extreme-macro.co.uk/insect-chilling-chamber/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"
61.182.139.70 - - [21/Jan/2014:09:09:33 +0000] "POST /insect-chilling-chamber/trackback/ HTTP/1.0" 404 5527 "http://extreme-macro.co.uk/insect-chilling-chamber/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) )"

What's going on and is there a way to stop this?

Thank you

[johan]

I've looked into this a bit more - I'm not convinced I really understand it yet.

But, is there a set of commands I could run in commentics that would have the same effect as these do for wordpress?

[Steven]

Hi,

Is this related to Commentics? I'm not sure how these errors could be related to the script.

[johan]

Don't know, that's what I was wondering. Commentics is the only script that runs on the pages which seem to get these trackback 404s... I don't really get it at all

[Steven]

Have you tried removing the Commentics integration code temporarily to confirm whether it's the issue?

[johan]

Hm - I could.... but it's handcoded into 200 pages which makes it a bit of a massive ordeal . I actually suspect it's spammers looking for a way to get round the comment script or sniffing at a 'guessed URL' to get a trackback to their spam sites. Do you get this sort of entry "(...url)/trackback" in your own logs at all? (I'm looking at error log, not page access log).

[johan]

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/trackback(.*)$ /$1/ [NC,L,R=301]