I've just installed Debian 9 with ispconfig 3 (most with default settings). Now I see requests in the logs like this one: Code: /manual/ja/mod/directives.html /manual/ja/rewrite/access.html /manual/en/rewrite/intro.html and others Is that normal ? Did I set something wrong in the host settings? The logs first show a 301 and then a 200 HTTP code and they can be accessed by domain + directive. Is it possible to forbid these queries ? Should that be blocked? Which effect could them have? In my opinion they are ref-spam. The strings come mainly from Google, DotBot and other SERPS. On my Ubuntu 16.04. I hadn't such requests, or they were blocked somewhere, so they were not displayed in the logs of the domains.
What do you get under these url's? The Apache manual? if yes, search where this global alias for the apache docs is and remove it from apache config, this is not ispconfig specific nor set by ispconfig, so you must search in the global apache config files for this alias and remove it there.
Yes, you can access these requests by mydoman/manual/....... That why I think this is ref-spam. All are the standard installed with the "perfect debian 9 server tutorial with ispconfig". I did not made any change on these files. I found the following file, which seems to be responsible for this behaviour, but I don't know what to do with it, or what to change there. File: /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/apache2-doc.conf Code: Alias /manual /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual/ <Directory "/usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual/"> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None Require all granted AddDefaultCharset off </Directory> Several files are working as symlinks. I'm not really an expert to solve this by myself, any suggestion to a noob ? Dismod this file ? Change Links there ?
Sorry Till, our posts crossed: After new search over the net I found a solution, for others having same problem. Seems that these links where added to newer OS versions. My Ubuntu 16.04. was an upgrade of 14.04. with php 5.6. and afterwards added other php versions. Therefore this problem was not available before. Solution: Debian 8/9 just disable the configuration Code: a2disconf apache2-doc service apache2 reload OR apachectl graceful and if you want to uninstall completely the apache2-doc package Code: apt remove apache2-doc apt-get in case of Debian > 9
