v3.8 corrupted? ""showthread.php?s=4b2c963d9bacb8012..")
 

Hi chaps,

I'm running V3.8, and I just generated a sitemap - I noticed a lot of rows like this:

<url>
<loc>http://www.myforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=47594</loc>
<lastmod>2011-10-11</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>

I've never seen this kind of URL before associated with the forum, and it brings back a 'no thread specified' page when I use it.

Should I be worried?

There is no sitemap feature in default vB3.8 so I'm not sure where this is coming from.

I'm using Xenu to crawl and generate, but it's not Xenu. Now I look I can see these bizarre URLS coming up in my server log files now. Here's another example

[30/Sep/2011:13:12:59 +0100] "GET /forum/images/statusicon/thread_moved.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1179 "http://www.mysite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 GTB7.1"

I don't see anything wrong with any of what you have posted. That line from your access_log doesn't look weird - someone is on a page and is grabbing a gif. What do you find wrong with that?

Odd. It gets cut out every time I try to post it.

Immediately after the forumdisplay.php? there is a parameter that starts "s=edb6d120..." and goes on for 32 chars in all.

That's the bit I've never noticed before.

That is just the sessionid.

Thanks for your time, Lynne.

The session id should never be appended to the end of a url, that would be a bad thing.

Maybe that's why vb doesn't let you post it ;)

Is a problem then? Or is it OK? I'm out of my depth here.

Coincidentally (or is it..?) my site went down an hour and a half ago. The hosting company are now running an FSCK on it.