If they are requesting urls that do not exist why are you worried? Just block that IP address in the vhost configuration and continuously monitor the server for strange or unexpected traffic.
You can look into something like munin or graphite. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:26 PM, MattDale <mattdalesm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using windows/django1.4/apache2.2 for a couple intranet apps and > it has been working well. I recently had our admin open up a port in our > firewall to deploy another app publicly. We weren't using the app and there > were issues when testing, since both the admin and myself are newbies to > deploying publicly with Apache with SSL. So we left the server as is and > tested UX for this app on an external host. We installed a new system wide > firewall last week which the admin thought would help with our issues so I > went to do some server prep today to bring the app on an internal server > again. > > A check of the access logs found a specific external IP address hitting > the server every 1/4 second with strange URLs that look to be commonly used > php urls since June 7,2013. It has been getting hit for DAYs and I just > wasn't monitoring the server. Each of the requests either 302'd or 404'd > and there are thousands of them. I stopped the server, and sent an email > to the admin to close that port down. > > Since neither I nor the system admin know much about deploying, is there > anywhere I can look to hire someone to help get this app deployed safely? > Our policies require SSL and we are willing to use other OS or servers, we > just need someone who knows what they are doing. > > We are in the NYC vicinity. > > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
