Check the “do-you-like-oranges” page for a link to “they-are-really-good” that is missing the “http://” in the front of it.
Sorry karpstrucking — I’m not following you. Could you please clarify what you mean?
Go to the page that has the url “do-you-like-oranges” and edit it. Look for a link within the content to another page like “they-are-really-good” – I predict you will find that the link is missing the “http://” from the beginning.
Hey karpstrucking,
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve already double checked all the links in the posts that are showing 404s and they’re all correct; none are missing the ‘http://’ so that’s not the issue but thanks for your suggestion.
And the really odd thing to me in all this is that the URL that’s added on (and shouldn’t be) to the end of each URL listed as a 404 error is the exact same URL; its not like each 404 has a different URL added on — they all have the exact same one.
Any other suggestions?
I see that kind of thing every once in a while, and I am guessing that is just some kind of scraper or whatever tacking things together to see what might happen. I know nothing about how ‘bots and such look for vulnerabilities, but doing stuff like that to test security would make logical sense to me.
Would you mind giving us one of the links?
leejosepho — I’m not sure how this could relate to a security issue as these are google’s results from GWT. Could you please expand a bit on your explanation?
karpstrucking — I originally used dummy URLs but I’ll post the actual ones now and hopefully that’ll help you help me. 😉
So here’s the link to one of the posts:
http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/
And instead of listing that URL as the 404 crawl error, here’s what GWT has listed:
http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review
So the domain name is repeated and another completely different URL is added onto the end. I realize that the 404 error is due to the fact that that URL does not exist on my site but I don’t understand why google has attached the extra domain name and totally unrelated URL of a completely different post to all these links.
The ‘petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review’ part of the listing is from this post:
http://www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review
And it’s added onto the end of every single 404 error listed in my GWT ‘Smartphone’ section.
I use Flexibility 3 theme and I’ve had one developer say he thinks this is being caused by some kind of bug in the theme but I haven’t been able to get any help from the Flexibility 3 developer or forum.
leejosepho — I’m not sure how this could relate to a security issue as these are google’s results from GWT. Could you please expand a bit on your explanation?
My thoughts there are merely guesses (or wrong assumptions stemming from some overall ignorance) related to that kind of 404 I occasionally see while working to deflect (redirect) certain malicious or undesirable traffic away even before it ever actually reaches my WordPress installations. And since those obviously cannot actually get anywhere, I did not mean to imply they are any actual danger even if they *might* be coming from malicious sources *testing* security in order to analyze its handlings of various things.
Here is an example of my own from the Wordfence Security “Live traffic” (404) log this morning:
Russian Federation tried to access non-existent page http://www.nnywriters.com/https:/wordpress.org/
To the best of my knowledge, https:/wordpress.org/ is not present anywhere at that site.
