Interesting website activity

all files in root directory modified

[johnnydequino]

I noticed today all files in my root directory have been modified. I don't see any modifications, but there is a new modified date for every file in the root. Could this have been google?

jd

[Sinner_G]

I don't see any reason Google activity would change the modified date of your files. Maybe you should check with you ISP to see if they have done something.

[peewhy]

They have probably been backed up, check your local files against them in case you are showing older versions.

[Imaster]

I would suggest that you ask your web administrator whether he has run any scripts for backup or someother purpose.

As far as google or any other search engine is concerned, they cannot modify or edit any files on the server, simply because they don't have the user and pass to get on the server and modify anything AND mainly because that would be a violation.

[TowerOfPower]

If you are using a Linux server, you have to make sure that the user/group that Apache runs as, is different than the owner/group of your webroot.

I run Apache2 as nobody/nobody.

Webroot is root/root and chmod 755.

Also you might want to run a security hardering script like Bastille Linux.

[edited by: oilman at 11:43 pm (utc) on July 19, 2003]
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