Resolved Need help understanding a common 404 error in logs

[David Jimenez]

I see numerous 404 entries from IP address that are googlebots (e.g., 66.249.69.145). The errors come in pairs and the first one may change but the content is always very similar, the second is always the same:

GET /plugins/like.php?href=http://younggirls-sex.blogspot.com/...ion=like&show_faces=true&share=true&height=35 HTTP/1.1

471#0: *166940 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream

We don't host porn and the first GET always seems to be porn related. Any idea why we get these errors and any way to stop them? I can't block the IP addresses as they are all associated with Google web crawlers. Also, we don't have fast cgi or any cgi enabled in Plesk.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi David Jimenez,

Any idea why we get these errors

This might interest you, I suppose: => http://www.bortzmeyer.org/sichuan-pepper.html

any way to stop them?

If you find an answer to your question, I would be very interested in it!

 

[David Jimenez]

Thanks, that makes sense. That also explains the other common 404 for someone looking for wp-login.php...we don't run word press either.

 

[David Jimenez]

I found a solution, but it involves more than a simple Plesk setting. I run our web site through Cloudflare. I can use their page rules to setup a rule such as:

*mydomain.com/plugins/like.php?href=*

and have that rule redirected to a non-existent URL. That way, the scum bag government censors won't be chewing up my bandwidth...on second thought, maybe I should find an IP address for a Chinese government web site and use that.