Title: Weird 404 errors in logs..
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Weird 404 errors in logs..

 *  Resolved [PPNSteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppnsteve/)
 * (@ppnsteve)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/)
 * Great, useful plugin.. thanks for it 🙂
 * Now on to these strange errors that keep popping up in the logs..
 * I’m seeing 100’s of 404 errors like:
 * >  29 Nov 2015, 7:37 pm
   > /anime/**%3Ca%20href=**
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/)
   > IP Address Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
   > 29 Nov 2015, 7:31 pm
   > /the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/**%3Ca%20href=**
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/)
   > IP Address Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
   > 29 Nov 2015, 7:31 pm
   > /the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/**%3Ca%20href=**
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/power-of-chaos-information/)
 * Yet there is no a href code on the page that should be triggering these errors.
   
   My only thought is it’s being falsely triggered by the lightbox(??) we have for
   images.
 * Debug data:
 * > **Settings Data**
   > redirect_type : 301
   >  redirect_to : link redirect_page : 2 redirect_link : [http://www.yugioh-world.com/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/)
   > redirect_log : 1 email_notify_address : exclude_paths :
   > **Basic Details**
   > Version of Plugin : 2.0.9
   >  Home Page : [http://www.yugioh-world.com](http://www.yugioh-world.com)
   > **Active Theme Details**
   > Name : YuGiOh! World 2014
   >  Version : 1.0.0 Theme URI : [http://www.yugioh-world.com](http://www.yugioh-world.com)(
   > child of TwentyFourteen)
   > **Active Plugins**
   > 404-to-301/404-to-301.php
   >  acurax-social-media-widget/acurax-social-icon.php
   > akismet/akismet.php auto-limit-posts-reloaded/auto-limit-posts.php contact-
   > form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php custom-meta-widget/customMeta.php custom-sidebars/
   > customsidebars.php disable-xml-rpc/disable-xml-rpc.php fourteen-colors/fourteen-
   > colors.php google-analytics-dashboard-for-wp/gadwp.php google-captcha/google-
   > captcha.php nextgen-gallery/nggallery.php no-page-comment/no-page-comment.php
   > really-simple-captcha/really-simple-captcha.php responsive-lightbox/responsive-
   > lightbox.php sb-child-list/sb_child_list.php scroll-top/scroll-top.php simple-
   > social-buttons/simple-social-buttons.php social/social.php tinymce-advanced/
   > tinymce-advanced.php white-label-cms/wlcms-plugin.php wordpress-seo/wp-seo.
   > php wp-nested-pages/nestedpages.php wp-smushit/wp-smush.php
 * Any ideas or suggestions to resolve this problem??
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-301/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-301/)

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 *  Thread Starter [PPNSteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppnsteve/)
 * (@ppnsteve)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797553)
 * just loaded a different page and clicked on nothing in it .. this error still
   shows up in the logs:
 * > 29 Nov 2015, 8:03 pm
   > /the-video-games/zexal-world-duel-carnival-info/%3Ca%20href=
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/zexal-world-duel-carnival-info/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/the-video-games/zexal-world-duel-carnival-info/)
   > IP Address Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like 
   > Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36 29 Nov 2015, 8:02
   > pm
   > /anime/millennium-items/%3Ca%20href=
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/millennium-items/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/millennium-items/)
   > IP Address Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
   > 29 Nov 2015, 8:00 pm
   > /anime/episodes/s2-59-espa-roba-the-esp-duelist-part-2/%3Ca%20href=
   >  [http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/episodes/s2-59-espa-roba-the-esp-duelist-part-2/](http://www.yugioh-world.com/anime/episodes/s2-59-espa-roba-the-esp-duelist-part-2/)
   > IP Address Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46(
   > KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1
 * It’s doing it for almost every non-404’d page load on the site…
 *  Plugin Author [Joel James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelcj91/)
 * (@joelcj91)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797639)
 * Hello PPNSteve,
 * Could you please try adding the following path to the exclude paths?
 * > %3Ca%20href=
 *  Thread Starter [PPNSteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppnsteve/)
 * (@ppnsteve)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797642)
 * I did that some time after posting this .. it no longer logging those errors..
 * but why is it even SEEING them in the first place?
    the pages previously logged
   have no bad links or 404 issues.
 *  Plugin Author [Joel James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelcj91/)
 * (@joelcj91)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797671)
 * May be its being called by any of your plugin? Is it possible to try deactivating
   plugins one by one and check?
 *  Thread Starter [PPNSteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppnsteve/)
 * (@ppnsteve)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797713)
 * Perhaps.. I’ll consider doing a one by one plugin check when I get some free 
   time.. but for now the entry in exclude path is stopping the logging and pages
   seem to be loading and working correctly.
 * Thanks so much for your help 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Joel James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelcj91/)
 * (@joelcj91)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797731)
 * 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Joel James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelcj91/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-404-errors-in-logs/#post-6797731)
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