RSS Not Found By … Something?

  • Okay, so I have Guardian installed on our webserver. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it gives you friendly 404’s, etc. as well as notifying the administrator whenever someone (or something) tries going to a page that doesn’t exist. We use this to make sure that we haven’t goofed on something.
    Anyway, lately I’ve been getting the following error:

    Error 404 "Document Not Found" occurred for:
    https://www.mysite.com/wordpress/feed/rss2/
    Responded with error template 'error_404.txt'.
    The error was caused by a visitor from: 209.11.36.155 This visitor has caused a 404 error 1 time(s).
    The error time was: 2004-08-23 14:25:30
    No referring URL was associated with this visit.
    The following Filter Rule handled this error:
    error-code: 404
    error-template: error_404.txt

    So, I’m wondering, what’s looking for this /wordpress/feed/rss2 directory?
    I’d like to be able to send notifications to blogs alerting them that ours has been updated, but I don’t want to provide them with content, as they (the user) need to login to read the blog.
    We’ve pretty much disabled RSS because we’re behind a members-only area.
    Anyone?
    Thanks.
    (PS: If there’s a developer out there who’s interested in helping to ‘refine’ our installation of WordPress, we’d be happy to pay to make sure it’s doing what we need/want it to do. Just Email me.)
    nick at nidasa dt com

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  • >>So, I’m wondering, what’s looking for this /wordpress/feed/rss2 directory?
    Could be a feed autodiscovery script, or one of the popular search engine. The reason the file is looked-for is because of a line or two in the head section of you index.php which may still be saying that there are feeds in the website.
    Also, for private sites, which you do not wish to be indexed by the search engines, you could use a robots.txt file to declare the intention to do so.

    Thread Starter nickm

    (@nickm)

    Thanks – 2fargon, do you have any suggestions of what i put in the robots.txt file?

    The details are at
    https://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
    A google search for robots.txt will lead you to a few more resources.

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