error log

[Kyrianchigozie]

please who can help me interpret this, i have been receiving error messages in my error log both in my host and admin account every day, should i just ignore the messages? although my forum is working very fine, i havent expirience any error but i kept on receiving this error messages every ti,me.

[MrPhil]

You should never ignore error log entries. They're telling you something is wrong. It might be a minor problem, but it should still be addressed, to avoid filling up the log and causing you to overlook important errors.

Your first image shows lots of 404.shtml missing errors (? It's hard to tell because you cut off so much of the message -- please learn to copy and paste text).  You should have at least the basic 4xx.shtml and 500.shtml files, as well as a favicon.ico and robots.txt (see http://www.catskilltech.com/freeSW/SMF/faqs/#files). That will stop a lot of the clutter in your error log. Then you can see that your theme sees to be missing a whole lot of image (.png) files. I would discuss this with the supplier of your theme (maybe they have a support forum or topic). It's possible that these are images for a mod (such as shoutbox) which are installed into the base theme directory, but not automatically copied into other themes. In that case, it may be as simple as copying the image files from the core or default theme (wherever they actually are) into this theme you are using.

The second and fourth images I can't tell what's going on, because you show too little. Again, you need to show the full text.

The third image is showing a missing index "spy". That sounds a bit suspicious -- do you have some sort of "spy" mod installed? If not, you will have to look at the code where it's trying to use this index and see if you've been hacked, or this is part of a legitimate mod installation that was incomplete. Those look like core files, so it wouldn't be like the theme images.

[shadow82x]

What mods do you have installed? It looks like you have several modifications installed, which contain icons/images, that need to be copied over to ecology theme image directory. The error means it cant find these modification images even though they're being called.


That's my guess at least.

[Kyrianchigozie]

ok this is the last error i saw in the log [Wed Oct 16 17:55:43 2013] [error] [client 196.46.246.137] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed Oct 16 17:55:43 2013] [error] [client 196.46.246.137] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/favicon.ico
[Wed Oct 16 17:54:25 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.14] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed Oct 16 17:54:25 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.14] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/Themes/default/css/smfhacks_css
[Wed Oct 16 17:48:43 2013] [error] [client 82.145.210.96] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/404.shtml, referer: http://futoforum.com.ng/
[Wed Oct 16 17:48:43 2013] [error] [client 82.145.210.96] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/favicon.ico, referer: http://futoforum.com.ng/
[Wed Oct 16 16:15:37 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.14] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed Oct 16 16:15:37 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.14] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/robots.txt
[Wed Oct 16 16:09:43 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.109] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/404.shtml
[Wed Oct 16 16:09:43 2013] [error] [client 66.249.75.109] File does not exist: /home/futo/public_html/robots.txt

[Kindred]

Well, it seems fairly clear what the issues are... you are missing certain files which your system is expecting. So put those files on your site....................

[MrPhil]

Make and place in your root folder 400.shtml, 401.shtml, 403.shtml, 404.shtml, 500.shtml, robots.txt (even if it's empty), and a favicon.ico (you need a paint program and a little artistic flair for this one). That will clean a lot of the clutter out of your error log, letting you see important errors that you need to work on.

[Kyrianchigozie]

pls i know how to upload favicon but this one "Make and place in your root folder 400.shtml,
401.shtml, 403.shtml, 404.shtml, 500.shtml,
robots.txt (even if it's empty)" i dont know how to do it, pls help

[Kindred]

create text files by those filenames.

[MrPhil]

I already gave you a link to a page explaining them. Read it.