I have a apache working (in parts) as an reverse proxy. It's producing a load of 9 and more! When I set it up, I first made some mistake opening this for all URLs. I now tighten it (I beleive) to only proxy my local Plone via mod_rewrite:
<VirtualHost *>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/<local_dir>(.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ <plone_site>/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
when I look at the /var/log/apache2/access.log I see lot of requests like:
59.54.112.184 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:52 +0200] "GET http://www.speedycpm.com/code.php?id=177&l=1 HTTP/1.0" 404 13267 "http://8cpa.0134.cn/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
124.192.187.189 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:55 +0200] "GET http://www.speedycpm.com/code.php?id=1030&l=2 HTTP/1.0" 404 13269 "http://8cpa.0134.cn/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
121.17.3.236 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:57 +0200] "GET http://bbc.mdc-berlin.de/info_icon.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 997 "http://www.promopaid.info/?ref=ppmesh" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"
112.192.11.205 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:58 +0200] "GET http://creditburner.blueadvertise.com/n_xb300250_d.php?uid=ZGVuZ2ppZXl1ZQ== HTTP/1.0" 404 13295 "http://www.168ptc.ws/neobux.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1"
121.17.3.236 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:58 +0200] "GET http://bbc.mdc-berlin.de/newsitem_icon.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 952 "http://www.promopaid.info/?ref=ppmesh" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"
218.95.46.131 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:01:58 +0200] "GET http://www.speedycpm.com/code.php?id=1030&l=3 HTTP/1.0" 404 13269 "http://8cpa.0134.cn/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
121.17.3.236 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:02:02 +0200] "GET http://bbc.mdc-berlin.de/spinner.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2037 "http://www.promopaid.info/?ref=ppmesh" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"
218.95.46.131 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:02:05 +0200] "GET http://creditburner.blueadvertise.com/n_xb300250_d.php?uid=ZGVuZ2ppZXl1ZQ== HTTP/1.0" 404 13295 "http://www.168ptc.ws/neobux.htm" "Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; I)"
211.157.108.223 - - [09/Sep/2009:14:02:06 +0200] "GET http://creditburner.blueadvertise.com/n_xb46860_d.php?uid=NTM2NTQ4 HTTP/1.0" 404 13277 "http://fininfo.org" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
They are all answered by 404 Error documents so I assume these requests are rejected. So is there anything I could tune? This is only a small webserver for our group so any fancy load balancing is out of question.
regards, Andreas