Reading Logs

http://domain.com/?S=A

[dauction]

Using cpanel .. Under latest visitors on occasion I see robots ..in this case yahoo slurp hitting mydomain.com but it adds characters at the end ..in this case /S=A ..

Anyone clue me in on what's going on?

[BjarneDM]

That means that instead of a web-page the robot/browser has gotten a listing of the files in a folder.

Typically, you have a folder with pictures in it and no index.html file.
Then, when somebody accesses your site with h*ttp://my.site.com/pictures/ they'll get a listing of the pictures in your folder.

If you take a closer look at the server-log you'll see that these lines come in groups of typically four corresponding to the column headers of the folder listing.

It's a server setup issue:
- Sometimes you want to enable folder listing for the whole site
- Sometimes you don't want this feature at all
- Sometimes you want to enable/disable on a folder-by-folder basis

[dauction]

Thanks BjarneDM ..

I see it today.. grabbing off the image folder /images/S=A

Any harm in leaving it as is..

[BjarneDM]

> Any harm ...

That's up to you to decide.
You might or might not want to have people to have direct access to your pictures. I can't tell what's right for your.

If you don't have the possibility to modify the access-rights on the server, the easy way to get around the problem is to insert an index.html file with just a <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=/"> making everybody go somewhere else.