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**MadK** · 07-31-2008 11:59 AM

When looking in current users activity, and looking at spiders activity, I sometimes see this:

Majestics MJ12bot Spider
Unknown Location
/forums/challenger-.html mail.snaptale.com

However, my profile URL format is: [user_name]-[user_id]

Is it something I have to worry about? It happened with Googlebot as well, two days ago!

**Joe Ward** · 08-01-2008 04:35 PM

Was it the same invalid URL that showed up for Googlebot?

**MadK** · 08-01-2008 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Was it the same invalid URL that showed up for Googlebot?

Yes, but now it looks like it fixed itself.

However, I have another issue. Some of my members are trying to access an unknown location now.

Unknown Location /forums/members/hova-albums-signatures-picture35-gta4_banner_small.png

The actual url to that 'unknown location':

http://www.mafia-mp.com/forums/membe...nner_small.png

I contacted that one member trying to access that page, and he said he wasn't even browsing that page.

**MadK** · 08-02-2008 06:53 AM

Now, that 'bug' happened with me. However, I was actually looking at my own profile...

Screenshot

**MadK** · 08-04-2008 08:29 AM

The issue is persisting!

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 08-04-2008 10:09 AM

/members/hova-albums-signatures-picture35-gta4_banner_small.png is the link to picture file in the album and vBulletin doesn't have description for this page. The "Current activity" field on the profile page display your *previous* page opened.

**MadK** · 08-04-2008 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

/members/hova-albums-signatures-picture35-gta4_banner_small.png is the link to picture file in the album and vBulletin doesn't have description for this page. The "Current activity" field on the profile page display your *previous* page opened.

The problem is: that page does not exist and I was not even browsing the user's album, or picture, at the time I took this picture of my current activity.

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 08-04-2008 04:49 PM

Perhaps you have a link (or embedded image) to that URL somewhere on your forum, so you have opened it when browsing the forum.

**MadK** · 08-04-2008 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Perhaps you have a link (or embedded image) to that URL somewhere on your forum, so you have opened it when browsing the forum.

No, my profile was the only thing I was looking at, and I have asked my users if they were viewing that image, or opened it, and they did not.

Please note that the image url does not even exist, therefore I don't understand how I or my users can see the image.

**Err0r** · 11-30-2008 06:38 AM

I am having the same problem. The "current activity" of users often lead to images or .js files.

Example:

Unknown Location /images/misc/11x11progress.gif

**MadK** · 11-30-2008 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Err0r

I am having the same problem. The "current activity" of users often lead to images or .js files.

Example:

Unknown Location /images/misc/11x11progress.gif

What I did was add the [id] to every page and it seemed to work afterwards!

**Err0r** · 11-30-2008 01:40 PM

Thanks for the reply. I don't quite understand what you mean, do you have some more info?

**MadK** · 11-30-2008 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Err0r

Thanks for the reply. I don't quite understand what you mean, do you have some more info?

In Forum URLs (AdminCP -> vBSEO -> Control Panel -> Forum URLs -> Member's Profile URLs), I have added the [user_id] to all rewritting rules for Member's Profile URLs section.

For example, this is how my visitor's conversation page looks like:

members/convo-[user_name]-[user_id]-with-[visitor_name]-[visitor_id].html

**briansol** · 11-30-2008 10:57 PM

The issue is that since vbseo parses everything that isn't a REAL file or directory (the last 3 lines of the htaccess, -f, -d -> send to vbseo.php), when it doesn't exist, it effectively runs the 404 script.

If you add

Code:

define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);

to the top of the 404 file, it will stop the session from existing in vbulletin, and thus won't show on the who's online page.

HOWEVER, since this file is also global for 404 pages, when a member hits a 404 result, they will appear as guests/logged out.

So, there's no perfect solution.... just a which one bothers you more

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