repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

by james mergenthaler -
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I updated my moodle from 3.1 - 3.4 recently and see a reoccurring error in my log file for the updated instance.

   script 'C:/wamp64/www/xxxxx/calendar/set.php' not found or unable to stat

There is no set.php file in the calendar folder in moodle 3.4, but there was a set.php file in the calendar folder in the previous version I was using, 3.1.

I was tempted to copy the file from the 3.1 instance into the 3.4 instance, but that is probably a bad idea.

This error has showed up about 600 times in the past couple days.

I don't think its causing any issues in moodle, just making it difficult to find useful/important things in the error logs.

Also updated the underlying WAMP from 2.5 to 3.1 and am using PHP 7.0.23, mysql 5.7.19 and apache 2.4.27

Thank you in advance.

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Re: repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

by Ken Task -
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Got web server error logs that show where that request is coming from?  Might be someone has a device and they have it set to sync with the calendar in Moodle?

That's a guess.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

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Re: repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

by Howard Miller -
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possibly that.... or....

I'm assuming you have a separate PHP log?  Switch on Debugging up full. When it happens again, you should get a trace that will indicate what called it. I'm wondering if an out of date plugin is responsible. 

You could also check that any optional plugins are compatible with 3.4!

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Re: repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

by Mathew Gancarz -
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I dug into this a bit as we have the same error in our logs. Check if it's always coming from the same IP. For ours it did and it's a link crawling bot that keeps trying to get the /calendar/set.php page for some reason.

The Apache transfer log will have info, for example:

216.244.66.241 - - [23/Aug/2018:01:12:28 -0400] "GET /calendar/set.php?return=L2NhbGVuZGFyL3123asucGhwP3ZpZXc9bW9udGgmdGltZT0xMTU0NDA0ODAwJmNvdXJzZT0x&var=showglobal HTTP/1.1" 404 4876 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)"

Which leads to information about it at https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/dotbot

You can exclude certain pages or parts of the site using robots.txt

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Re: repeating error in log file after upgrade to moodle 3.4

by Lev Zadumkin -

I have the same error. Just add these lines to the robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /calendar/set.php
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