vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat???!

Hello!

Today I was checking through my php error logs after running into some problems with another piece of software...

Strangely, what I noticed is i get a lot of requests for forum/images/misc/vbseo.php that come up with "vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat"...


Now heres my situation... I've never wanted to get Vbseo, I've defenitly never tried to install it...

-- yet why the heck is my server getting requested for "vbseo.php" in my forum/images/misc folder upon EVERY single request for any page in my forum?

I don't know why this is happening, but more importantly, I'd want this to stop.

Anybody have any ideas where this request occurs? Where to look?

I'm interested in hearing back, I figured this forum would be the right place to post,

Cheers,
Tom-E

Can you share your forum url so we can check

Skateboard-city.com/messageboard/

vBSEO was never on that site? You are the original owner of the site?

Check your .htaccess file to see if there are any references to vBSEO.

yes, original owner,
no -- after checking, nothing in my htaccess files refers to Vbseo... (i do have a tonn of .htaccess.###### files... I only checked the one .htaccess file.)

Also, there's no vbseo.php in the /images/misc directory.

There's only the one instance of vbseo.php and it lives in the forum root.

mm? i just searched a recent backup of my site and nofiles named vbseo.php come up...

i checked the forum root just now too... nothing named vbseo.php??

Any ideas?
htaccess does seem logical... but doenst seem to check out

Sorry, I meant "in the vBSEO package, the only instance of vbseo.php is the one in the root".

As you are not a vBSEO owner, and your site has never had it installed (according to you), there's no way that error is related to vBSEO.

As an example of how it might have occured - the file is being linked to on another site somewhere. Have you checked your Raw Error Logs to determine the referring pages?

here is about 10 seconds of my error log copied out:

[Fri Oct 12 23:06:39 2007] [error] [client 24.7.166.187] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Skateboard-City Forum - Search Forums
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:40 2007] [error] [client 67.60.111.94] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Femalessss - Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:41 2007] [error] [client 69.143.149.206] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Skateboard-City Forum - View Profile: StarcraftLedZeppelin
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:41 2007] [error] [client 12.214.219.138] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:45 2007] [error] [client 76.169.22.179] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: just learned f.s.flips. lil help - Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:45 2007] [error] [client 67.127.57.192] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:47 2007] [error] [client 24.6.227.248] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Super Montage - Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:47 2007] [error] [client 24.127.94.233] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Industry News - Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:48 2007] [error] [client 125.239.99.141] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: Name Change - Skateboard-City Forum
[Fri Oct 12 23:06:48 2007] [error] [client 207.200.116.73] script '/var/www/vhosts/skateboard-city.com/httpdocs/messageboard/images/misc/vbseo.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: mystery or zero - Skateboard-City Forum

As you can tell, these are all referred from under my Vbulletin forum... but no single file can be called out just by looking at the logs...

How do I check where this is happening?

please post your htaccess. unable to stat is an apache-related error (most the time).

sounds like there's something weird in there

If you have a dedicated server please chekc your httpd.conf to see if there is anything related to vbseo over there.

Originally Posted by briansol

please post your htaccess. unable to stat is an apache-related error (most the time).

sounds like there's something weird in there

.htaccess file in site's main httpdocs folder:

#

# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:

#



# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

<Files ~ "(\.(inc|module|pl|sh|sql|theme|engine|xtmpl)|Entr ies|Repositories|Root|scripts|updates)$">

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

</Files>



# Set some options.

Options -Indexes

Options +FollowSymLinks



# Customized error messages.

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php



# Set the default handler.

DirectoryIndex index.php



# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but

# the following cannot be changed at runtime. The first IfModule is

# for Apache 1.3, the second for Apache 2.

<IfModule mod_php4.c>

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0

php_value register_globals 0

php_value session.auto_start 0

</IfModule>



<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0

php_value register_globals 0

php_value session.auto_start 0

</IfModule>



# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresByType text/html A1

</IfModule>



# Various rewrite rules.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on



# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and

# the rewrite rules are not working properly.

RewriteBase /vbdrupal/forum/drupal



# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$

#RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]



# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$

#RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]



# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>



# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.2 2006/05/14 21:11:19 elmuerte Exp $

are there any other htaccess files that actually do anything other than my httpdocs/ one?

I wanna get this outta the way,