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1. lingscars
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi!

   I recently upgraded my site from wordpress 2.0.8? to the latest version of wordpress last Monday. Today my database went mental. Checking mysql showed loads of process.

   I looked at my access.log and found loads of entrys from my own server with the following text:
   

   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:07 +0100] "HEAD /car_images/lexus_is/small.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:08 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:08 +0100] "HEAD /car_images/lexus_is/small.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:09 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:12 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:13 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:14 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:14 +0100] "HEAD /car_images/mazda_3/small.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:17 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:17 +0100] "HEAD /car_images/audi_a4_saloon/small.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:19 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:19 +0100] "HEAD /car_images/volkswagen_eos/small.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"
   89.16.161.206 - - [09/Sep/2009:09:11:19 +0100] "HEAD /lease-hire.php#chinese HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "WordPress/2.8.4; http://www.lingscars.com/blog"

   I run a VERY large website. Is wordpress indexing my website? How can I stop it?

   Ling Valentine

2. esmi
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Have you tried deactivating all plugins?

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   WordPress doesn't "index" or anything of the sort.

   However, if you make a post that contains a link, then WordPress will indeed go pull that link looking to see if it can send what's called a "pingback". This is for when you post about stories on other blogs, it'll send them a message saying you linked to them, and usually these show up as "comments" on those other blogs, and have links back to your own post.

   This should only happen once per link, per post. If you want to turn it off, you can do so on the Settings->Writing or Settings->Discussion page.

4. lingscars
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Akismet was calling the script. I put in code
   

   if (!preg_match('~lingscars~i', $host)) {
   ...
   }

   And is now fixed! I am damn good.

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