thousands of 127.0.0.1 log errors

I was seeing this too. As far as I can tell, it’s part of the third-party Incutio XML RPC library used during the upgrade process.

/var/log/apache2/access.log:127.0.0.1 – – [10/Jan/2012:17:16:24 -0500] “POST /pinger/ HTTP/1.0” 404 493 “-” “The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library — WordPress/3.3.1”

That was in my access log at the same time that I had errors in my Apache error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log) that said:

[Mon Jan 10 17:16:24 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/pinger

On your system, I would guess that /var/www/html is where your web server hosts its files. In my case, mine is /var/www.

That’s all I have for now. If you find anything else out, please post it back here.

I figured out what the problem was. I had a long list of “Update Services” (under Writing Settings) that I cut & pasted from a list I found somewhere. I decided to run the list through a link checker and about 90% of the links were dead. After removing the dead links, no more ping errors.

The user posted to me what the problem was, but for some reason it didn’t post back to here. So, I’m posting it for him in hopes that it helps a user out there:

“I figured out what the problem was. I had a long list of “Update Services” (under Writing Settings) that I cut & pasted from a list I found somewhere. I decided to run the list through a link checker and about 90% of the links were dead. After removing the dead links, no more ping errors.”