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  • August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm #24625
    Zsolt Edelényi
    Participant

    I received this security log item with BPS PRO. Event code: PSBR-HPR. Can I put to whitelist?

    /wp-content/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/timthumb/thumb.php?src=http://www.mydomain.hu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/slider-nelkul-webdesign.jpg&h=50&w=50&z=0
    August 27, 2015 at 7:18 am #24628
    AITpro Admin
    Keymaster

    Post the entire Security Log entry for this 403 error.  If you do not want to show your domain name or IP address publicly then use x’s.  Example:  REMOTE_ADDR: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Your domain name and the thumb.php file are whitelisted by default.  Is the image link pointing to an image file on the same website or a different website?

    August 27, 2015 at 9:12 am #24633
    Zsolt Edelényi
    Participant

    This is a plugin: Advanced Recent Post Widget. Put thumbnails before the title of the recent post.

    [403 GET / HEAD Request: July 10, 2015 5:13 am]
Event Code: PSBR-HPR
Solution: http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/security-log-event-codes/
REMOTE_ADDR: 66.249.64.252
Host Name: crawl-66-249-64-252.googlebot.com
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
HTTP_FORWARDED:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER:
REQUEST_URI: /wp-content/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/timthumb/thumb.php?src=http://www.xxx.hu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/slider-nelkul-webdesign.jpg&h=50&w=50&z=0
QUERY_STRING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Googlebot-Image/1.0
    August 27, 2015 at 9:28 am #24637
    AITpro Admin
    Keymaster

    Ok so the Googlebot-Image bot is crawling your site and there is no HTTP_REFERER since this is bot activity.  When I check your site:  akxxxx-wexxxx.hu I see the thumbnail images in your sidebar widget and do not see a 403 error.  So the Googlebot-Image bot 403 errors are nuisance errors.  You can either do one of the methods in this forum topic:  http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/googlebot-googlebot-image-403-error/ so that the nuisance 403 errors are no longer being logged or you can just ignore them.  The Googlebot-Image bot is able to successfully crawl, retrieve and index your image files on your website, but something else in the crawling script is being blocked.  In other words, everything is working fine and the 403 errors are just nuisance errors.

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