No public AWStats
For those who got here thinking that they would get to see the web statistics for my site: Go to the AWStats homepage and try the live demo instead. Read along below for an explaination of all this…
I was just checking my web statistics noticed that there has been no less than 2126 hits
on /awstats/awstats.pl — this month alone! The problem is that I no longer have my
statistics publicly available, so people get back a “404 — Not Found” page back. The
statistics was put offline because it took up quite a lot of my disk space quota, and because
people used the referrer statistics to find unprotected installations of PHP Shell.
So from now on a redirect (using the fantastic Apache mod_rewrite module) will be made to this post whenever someone tries to access the old AWStats installation.
sam:
lol
9 April 2005, 2:33 pmsiamak:
salam
11 April 2005, 11:39 pmheh:
i wonder how many of them owned you before you checked your logs… nUb
16 April 2005, 10:27 amReNz:
oh lol
17 April 2005, 6:51 amMartin:
A late comment for “heh”:
Nobody attacked my machine — the problem was that people who installed PHP Shell would leave it unprotected (dispite the big warnings in the documentation) and then follow the link from their PHP Shell page to this site.
A little while later a reverse link would show up in my statistics, and suddenly they had unexpected visitors to their web shell.
One should never think that a site that is accessible from the Internet wont be found — it will. Google is a powerfull tool, and sooner or later a link back will be found.
26 April 2005, 8:42 am