Someone Cloned my website

  • Resolved manualmode

    (@manualmode)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, everyone.

    built my e-commerce website a week ago.

    Today i was searching my website on google throng some keywords.

    To my surprise , i found a website lets say website “A” cloned my website with same site name and content.

    Ive searched “A” throng google, google showed 5 pages in total and all are the same to my website.

    I also found the website”A” has a https version, since my website has ssl certificate. When i visited https version of website “A”, Firefox warns “uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: “my domain name” (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain).”

    Really worried.

    Have i done anything wrong?
    What should i do now?

    Thanks a lot.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    What do you mean by cloned?

    Thread Starter manualmode

    (@manualmode)

    Hi, Andrew.

    Thanks for your reply.
    I took a close look, it seems that “that” website linked all my content to its domain.

    So everything on “that” website is same to my website, except the domain.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    How have they done that, through an iFrame or literally another WordPress installation?

    Thread Starter manualmode

    (@manualmode)

    Hi Andrew,

    I am not an expert on website/IT.

    But i believe it is not another WordPress installation.

    I’ve check “that” website home page through “Pingdom Website Speed Test”, except the domain name,html page and admin-ajax.php are under its domain name; everything else e.g. css file, image, is under my domain name.

    Also, in its Response Headers
    X-Pingback
    is my domain name/xmlrpc.php

    Is my website/my admin password still safe?
    Why would someone do that as my website is just 1 week old with no traffic at all.?
    What should i do now?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    everything else e.g. css file, image, is under my domain name.

    Excellent, you can write a bit of JavaScript in your code that says “if the website is not on your domain name, do something that will break the content”.

    Thread Starter manualmode

    (@manualmode)

    Hi Andrew
    Thanks for your quick reply.

    Im afraid that is beyond my knowledge.
    Can you provide a keyword about that code so I can google it to find a similar code written by others.

    Thanks.

    Best regards.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I’ll move this to the troubleshooting forum

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