Could someone explain these errors for me please.
They are all being generated by one memberand this error is not being generated by anyone else, so I'd like to work this one backwards and if my member has a problem let them know about it.
These are the errors, all "Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again." and all produced by collapsing or uncollapsing the sidebar or the head.
Lil_NZ 13 Jan 2007, 01:37 am
***.***.***.*** a5d8a2c26625713d7fe3399f7bd5be10
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_leftbar;val=0;sesc;1168652227473
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 11 Jan 2007, 06:00 pm
***.***.***.*** cc4efd44ed21f43c232d83eb53faef2d
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_leftbar;val=0;sesc;1168538434984
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 11 Jan 2007, 05:59 pm
***.***.***.*** cc4efd44ed21f43c232d83eb53faef2d
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_header;val=0;sesc;1168538333218
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 11 Jan 2007, 05:58 pm
***.***.***.*** 3ff28ed88a0e601c19d12cb5e852288b
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_header;val=0;sesc;1168538308562
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 04 Jan 2007, 05:24 am
***.***.***.*** 3e4545636d99463b3c9332ce83f87596
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_leftbar;val=0;sesc;1167888263203
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 04 Jan 2007, 05:24 am
***.***.***.*** 3e4545636d99463b3c9332ce83f87596
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_header;val=0;sesc;1167888251703
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 01 Jan 2007, 10:06 pm
***.***.***.*** a5a400fe8d0a5a9d6c0b2fe2627884c0
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_leftbar;val=0;sesc;1167689179515
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 01 Jan 2007, 10:01 pm
***.***.***.*** 66e035f3778d4826f2128cf94eb1df0e
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_header;val=0;sesc;1167688851375
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 31 Dec 2006, 12:48 am
***.***.***.*** 2e5ee39029f83b32f47f668364e35ee3
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_leftbar;val=0;sesc;1167526080328
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Lil_NZ 30 Dec 2006, 08:27 pm
***.***.***.*** 9c5f9bdadfb91107f13ef72fc68d03f9
http://our-local.co.uk/index.php?action=jsoption;var=collapse_header;val=1;sesc;1167510442703
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
Hm, the link seems faulty for some reason..this part
...val=1;sesc;1167510442703
should be
...val=1;sesc=1167510442703
What theme is the member using? It might be a typo in the theme code.
She uses a modified copy of the default theme, I have changed the header where the site name and logo appear.
I have attached a copy of the index.template
Was this problem ever resolved? I am getting this same error on a site that I set up for a friend. He is using the default theme also with smf 1.1.2 and tp .98 . the only thing that was done to the site is like the one above where the header and the logo changed that to a different one. this error occurs when using the shoutbox
20d2f4ceba88f06e6d5ac9299d1ef9b6
http://mysite/IBEW/index.php?action=tpmod;id=shout
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
One other thing it only seem to do it when I put a long sentence in.
No, I still see her in the error log.
Its really weird it happens sometimes when I use the shoutbox on a friends site. It says Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again. Then I go back in a little while and it works fine. I saw in the error log that it happened when someone was logging out. I wish I knew what was causing it.
This happens with one particular member of mine too. The forum is running SMF 1.1.3 and TP 0.9.8.
http://domain.tld/index.php?action=tpmod;id=shout
Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.
The member experiencing this problem uses Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows XP machine.
I think the referring URL error is the result of the user not using the same URL that SMF has set in its settings. If you're server URL is set to http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/ and the user is using http://yourdomain.com (without the www), you will often receive this error.
IchBin can I PM you with an issue I have with a lot of errors from the same 3 ip's. I was wondering if you could go in and see if you can tell me what is happening. It started 3 days ago and I almost feel like I have been hacked or an attempt is being made. I deleted the first 7 pages I got 3 days ago then I got 5 more pages the next day so I banned them to see what happened and got 15 pages of them trying to get in today. A few of the errors have Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again. like above but it looks like they are trying to modify my topics when that error occurs and they are a guest.
I don't have the time to look at that for you Brian. I would suggest however, that you check to make sure your site is set in the Admin > Server settings to be the same as the URL you are surfing with. I've seen the error you just posted about happen when people are trying to access your site with http://yourdomain.com and your forum is set to http://www.yourdomain.com.
OK Thanks I will keep trying to figure it all out. The part I was most concerned with is it is 3 ip's out of Russia and they are guest not members and it looks like they are trying to get into everything like the shoutbox, activate, modify topics and several others that they don't have any links for they are guest. In 3 minutes time they would cause up to 90 errors then they would start with another ip and do it again. They were doing a lot of searches? It is a small site? Most of the errors were because they searched for something that didn't exist.
After I banned the ip's I got 10 pages of errors in 4 minutes of them trying every link possible followed by 6 more pages in 3 minutes of the same thing.
Maybe it isn't a person the ip's are 83.222.23.219, 83.222.23.231, 83.222.23.214 and now this one 217.16.16.218
Are you sure they are not search engine bots? It's probably not a good idea to just go banning IP addresses unless you are sure what they are.
If they are following links to pages that no longer exist, or have been moved, or are unavailable to guests, they will cause warning notices, or errors to flag up in the error log. Site errors will not just go away, they will fill the logs very fast.. until the error has been resolved, or you turn the Error Logging off.
Posting links to pages that are inaccessible to guests should be avoided.
Spam bots also trawl websites, as long as they are not posting.. leave them alone.
Is your site being hacked? are you having serious problems with spam? If the answer is No, don't worry about it, the site security is doing its job.
If it's Yes, then you need to look into ways of making your site and server more secure. It's probably a good time to consider your site security now rather than later. Also make sure you have full regular backups.
I don't know what they are that's why I posted the ip's. I thought about bots but don't know. It happened for 3 days about the same time each day. If I track them they all go to Moscow Russia? I run error free except for the occassional password incorrect and things like that until this. Guest can view everything they just can't post, use the shoutbox and things like that and nothing has been deleted or moved.
I applied the ban to see what happened it just doesn't look right to me then I started getting other links in the error log like
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?amp;action=login2
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?amp;action=tpmod;id=shout
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?action=activate
and a whole lot of others from the same ip's.