404 Monitor Log

Hello @lucasw89

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for not following up quickly and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

We are more responsive over emails, our support forums, and the Facebook group.

You can ignore those errors. In the Rank Math plugin, an error is logged in the 404 Monitor when the HTTP response code is 410 or 451 or when is_404() returns true.

With that said, you should switch to the normal 404 Monitor and should use the advanced version only when you are not able to find the root cause of a 404 error to save space in your DB.

Also, while we are at it, I highly recommend going through the following guides to set up the plugin completely and correctly:

and
https://s.rankmath.com/wpmrmguide????

Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

Hi @rankmath,

Thanks for getting back to me. I switched my site to the Simple mode for 404 Monitor, but I’m still seeing those cache-related errors as well as picture-related (I use WP Retina 2x for retina images). I check the URL of the images in the Monitor 404 log and they seem to load just fine.

Please see screenshot: https://ibb.co/pZt6Yh0

Hello @lucasw89

An entry will get logged in the 404 monitor when http_response_code() is 410 or 451, or if is_404() condition returns true.

It doesn’t matter if you enable Simple or Advanced mode, someone (could be a bot) is trying to access those links on your site.

Maybe you could check the server logs and determine that.

Hope that helps. Thank you.

Okay, I check my server log and found some of those errors there. Doesn’t really tell me much since those look similar to what I see in the Monitor 404 log.

The only thing I’ve noticed is that in Rank Math there are occasionally apple-touch-icon.png and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png showing up in the log, BUT I have created redirections for them to the right URL, yet they still show up in the log. Does it mean that the log also displays URL with 301 redirects?

The errors look like this:

apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
View Redirection | Delete

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0Safari 9.0.1

Hello @lucasw89

That is something I believe is an issue in the plugin and the good news is that the issue was fixed internally:
https://i.rankmath.com/uZO21z

In one of the upcoming updates, you can expect a fix.

We seek your patience and understanding in this matter.

In the meantime, if there’s anything else, please let us know. We are here to help.

Thank you.

Hello @lucasw89

Please update to the latest version, that should fix the issue for you.

Hope that helps. Thank you.