404 Errors

I have a blog on my website and get a lot of 404 errors for pages like phpmyadmin2.5, phpmyadim-2.4 etc etc. I'm wondering whether these are hurtung my site and if I should be concerned with them.

If so is there and easy way to block all the similar pages in a robots file? There are so many of them it would be quite a file if I listed them all.

Thoughts?

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Hi UPB,

You should be concerned about these, from a search engine and usability perspective. Care to point me to your blog?

There may be a few solutions to your issues, but of course we would have to work out how they are caused in the first place. Common solutions are as follows:

1. There could be a pre-made add-on to solve your issue.
2. If the 404 errors can't stop being generated then you may be able to change your phpmyadmin to make sure that all potential 404 errors are placed within a certain sub-directory and block this out with robots.txt.

Solutions vary, show me the URL first and I will come up with a solution for you ;)

Cheers,
Dave

Thanks for your help!

Below is a list of pages it says are 404 errors. I dont think a user would ever reach these, more worried about the search engines.

<TABLE class=aws_data border=1 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.8.0.3/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.1-pl2/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl1/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.8.1-rc1/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/PMA2005/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/legal/.google-analytics.com/ga.js</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-alpha2/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.8.0-beta1/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-pl3/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2/scripts/setup.php</TD><TD>2</TD><TD class=aws>-</TD></TR><TR><TD class=aws>/phpMyAdmin-2.8.0-rc2/scripts/setup.php</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Those are just scriptkiddies trying to get in the backdoor of your php possibly.

Rick
Universal4

I agree with Rick UPB, most likely a few kids trying (badly i may add) to exploit your PHP.

I honestly wouldn't worry about search engines ever finding these pages.

Thanks Guys! I wont worry about then.

Google doesn't like too much javascript redirection. You might like to use 301 redirection instead to make use of lost traffic. This will be beneficial to your website.