Bad link hits captured by custom 404 page

  • Resolved boardtc

    (@boardtc)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    About 6 months ago I created a custom 404 page after reading https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_an_Error_404_Page

    The custom page sends me an email every time a bad link is hit. I have had about 400 email since.

    Looking through the list of bad links reported include:

    • /account/register.php
    • /admin.php
    • /adminstrator
    • /chrome/admin.php
    • /forums/member/register
    • /join.pho
    • /join_form.php
    • /member/register
    • /register.php
    • /signup.php
    • User-agent

    and many other variations etc.

    I don’t think any are related to my pages. What causes these bad links?

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  • Bots looking for a way into your site. They will look for any available door and will not always be WordPress specific. Although annoying, most of these attempts are rather harmless if you have adequate security. You might want to look into a security plugin to help you make sense of it. Wordfence does a good job of displaying all hits on your site by type (humans, crawlers, pages not found, etc.).

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordfence/

    Thread Starter boardtc

    (@boardtc)

    Thanks very much for detailed response! I installed WordFence and it looks very comprehensive and like you say will make sense of it all when I give a chance for more hits to come in.

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