A lot of 404 hits

  • Hi,

    We build a new site(on test domain), and replaced the old one on an excising domain.
    We tried to keep as much of the URLs the same, but since the old sites cms used ?=order… or stuff like that on nearly every url, We were still expecting some hit. But within a day I had over a 1000 404 hits.
    They all try to go to these type of urls: /catalog?/view?/javascript?/jquery?/colorbox?/jquery.colorbox.js
    and the referrer is always the same domain.
    When I visit the domain, I end up in a loop and within seconds add 50ish. 404 hits in the log.

    What would cause this? As a normal 404 hit, would go to the special 404 page. but this seems to be refreshing continually.

    Kind regards,

    Martijn

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  • This is common behavior. In most part, its from bots looking for common exploits. All sites have it, some far worse than others. To some extent, you can work on minimizing it.

    Thread Starter Martijn

    (@ximie90)

    This seems different.
    I’ll explain. this is our site: themaindomain.com

    when visiting the seconddomain.com it is trying to go to themaindomain.com and ends up in a loop.
    and while in the loop, it keeps adding 404 hits, as said. I visited and got stuck in the loop for about a second or 2 and it added 50ish 404 hits. all to links like this> catalog?/view?/javascript?/jquery?/colorbox?/jquery.colorbox.js

    Please post more detail of exactly what is happening and detailed examples of the old and new URLs and I will see what I can do to help with .htaccess code.

    HOWEVER, this doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with the Redirection plugin that this forum is about.

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