Re: [cobalt-users] .htaccess and recursive error documentstatement

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

le 18.9.2001 12:03, Manuel Schmitt à Manuel.Schmitt@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :

>> So don't worry about this. I would like to add that both internal as
>> external links can be used with the 404 Errordocument, but not with the
> 401
>> ( Authentication ).
> 
> yes, thanks.
> 
> BUT. We had this problem that on one of our RaQ3 with about 100 sites which
> are not very busy the Apache server did reach its MaxClient settings about
> three times within one week.
> 
> I looked into the logs and every time I saw calls to this one site (site54)
> which had this special .htaccess file and 50 or more entries of
> 
> [Sat Sep 15 20:35:18 2001] [error] [client 212.123.122.7] client denied
> by server configuration: /home/sites/site54/web/.html
> 
> This error message was only there for this one site, even if other sites had
> also visitors at the same time. I think this one site did cause the
> problems, but I can't understand this strange path at the end of the line.
> There is no file or directory like this.
> 
> Do you have any ideas?

Yes the customer is simply trying to link from one of his pages to that a
page called .html

Some bigger websites use this kind of technique
http://www.mydomain.com/directory/?language=en&color=FFFFFF

Because they can specify the DirectoryIndex to be be something else then the
standard index.* file, this makes it harder for eventual beginner hackers to
fetch the source code, but it can still be called passing arguments.

Just ask your customer if he knows why those errors appears, maybe he'll
have a clue.

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