Thousands of PHP executions: GET /ufaq-tag/

  • Our host said our website was using too many PHP executions. In reviewing the logs, we found thousands like these every day:

    
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:23 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/google-my-business/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13028 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/google-my-business/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:30 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/information/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12850 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/information/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:31 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/information/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12850 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/information/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:38 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/local-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13018 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/local-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:39 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/local-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13018 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/local-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:47 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/off-page-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 10951 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/off-page-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:48 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/off-page-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 10951 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/off-page-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:55 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/on-page-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11834 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/on-page-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:35:56 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/on-page-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11834 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/on-page-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:36:03 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/technical-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11322 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/technical-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OSX 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
999.999.999.999 - - [12/Apr/2021:18:36:05 -0500] "GET /ufaq-tag/technical-seo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11322 "https://our-domain-name.com/ufaq-tag/technical-seo/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"

    where 999.999.999.999 is our web server IP address.

    Any idea why there are so many PHP executions involving “ufaq-tag”?

    Thanks,

    John

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  • Plugin Support jaysupport

    (@jaysupport)

    Hi John,

    /ufaq-tag/xxxxx are archive pages for the FAQ tag taxonomy. That log just shows that those URLs are being served. With that in mind, are you, by any chance, linking directly to tags from anywhere on your site?

    Thread Starter johnm243

    (@johnm243)

    Thanks @jaysupport. There is a link from the primary menus to the FAQ page. There is also a link to the FAQs at the bottom of every article.

    There are no links to FAQ tags. In fact, they are hidden on the individual FAQ items, I only show Categories.

    John

    Plugin Support jaysupport

    (@jaysupport)

    Hi John,

    In that case, it’s even more strange.

    The tag link in an FAQ doesn’t link to that archive page anyway. It links to a custom URL that loads the shortcode with only that tag selected. There’s nothing in the plugin front-end output that should be linking to those URLs. That’s why I was wondering if there was perhaps any custom linking going on, on your end.

    Would you be able to share the link to your site/FAQ page with me, so I can see if there is any clues there that might explain this? I know you masked the stuff from your log, so, if you’d prefer to not share that publicly, you can send it to us directly via our website here: https://www.etoilewebdesign.com/support-center/

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter johnm243

    (@johnm243)

    @jaysupport, I don’t like it when the wizards say “In that case, it’s even more strange.” – being the first to have an issue isn’t good! ??

    Message sent on the support page!

    Thanks very much,

    John

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