chrisfegan
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I too am seeing this same issue, and a search for the error line shows it on a number of sites with SportsPress active.
The issue appears to be causing extremely high I/O usage in cPanel and crashes of my site with internal server errors. Each time a look in the WP debug log it shows the same error related to openstreetmap.
I’ve disabled other plugins to no affect, disabled WPCron and moved to a cPanel job and increased PHP memory limts, but nothing seems to work.
Could this be related to the recent changes with Google Maps API and OpenStreetMap?
Thanks,
ChrisForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WPAD.dat 404 error redirectAfter some investigation and another event of almost hitting my server limits I’ve found a solution. The requests, according to what I’ve read, tend to be generated because of mis-configured proxy detection on the visiting domain resulting in the attempt to load the wpad.dat file.
I found that adding the following to .htaccess has stopped the requests in their tracks and reduced server executions to a level I would expect for the usual traffic levels.
# BEGIN WPAD Block
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wpad.dat$ – [forbidden,last]
# END WPAD BlockForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WPAD.dat 404 error redirectThanks for the reply Jan, I see your point.
I was concerned that the volume of requests would not only be having an effect on server executions/load, but on SEO. I thought that if I redirected to the main homepage it would be better, but if, as you say, the requests shouldn’t have a negative effect on the site then I will ignore them.
Regards,
Chris