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    Unknown Location

    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!

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Ward View Post
    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.
    Last edited by MadK; 08-02-2008 at 06:54 AM.

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

    Screenshot

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    The issue is persisting!

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    /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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk View Post
    /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.

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    Perhaps you have a link (or embedded image) to that URL somewhere on your forum, so you have opened it when browsing the forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk View Post
    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.

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Err0r View Post
    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!

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Err0r View Post
    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

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    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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