Title: Error Log reports files missing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error Log reports files missing

 *  Resolved [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-reports-files-missing/)
 * File does not exist: /home/owner/public_html/favicon.ico
    [Fri May 20 14:14:34
   2005] [error] [client 66.228.209.130] File does not exist: /home/owner/public_html/
   404.shtml [Fri May 20 14:14:34 2005] [error] [client 66.228.209.130] File does
   not exist: /home/owner/public_html/robots.txt
 * What are these files and why is it looking for them?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-reports-files-missing/#post-207574)
 * favicon:
    [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=favicon.ico&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=favicon.ico&btnG=Google+Search)
 * 404 == 404 page (not found):
    [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/)
 * robots.txt:
 * robots.txt the defining document for the robots exclusion standard.. good bots
   loook for it to see what they can and cannot do on your site, directory traversal,
   and whatnot.
 * [http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html](http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html)
 * all very googlable.
 *  Thread Starter [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-reports-files-missing/#post-207645)
 * Thank you. I somehow thought there was something wrong.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-reports-files-missing/#post-207645)
 * Status: resolved

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