XF 2.1 Question: When viewing "Current Visitors"

[Max Taxable]

I have this coming up, an error for a visitor, when hovering on "Viewing unknown page" I keep seeing:



What does that mean? It's the same IP repeatedly getting that.

Info on the "visitor" it appears to be a Semrush bot, IP beginning with 46.229 out of Ashburn VA.

 

[Snog]

It simply means the visitor was trying to access a page that doesn't exist. I see it most often from bots trying to access wp-login.php.

What the visitor gets is this..
The requested page could not be found. (Code: invalid_route, controller: -, action: -)

You would need to check your actual server logs to see what page they are trying to access.

 

[Max Taxable]

Thanks, Snog. I half suspected as much since I see it happen with googlebot sometimes as well.

 

[Snog]

I'm to the point now that I just ignore them unless there is a large number of them at once, because they are usually an old vB link/path from 6+ years ago. If they still have vB links after over 6 years, they deserve the error.

The wp-login ones get a server level ban automatically after one try because they are just plain fishing.