Error log when changing server (GoogleBot)

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Hi
I moved the shop to a new server yesterday. Everything is working fine and the customers are able to shop.

I build the new shop as a addon domain on /home/accountname/public_html/domainA.com/domainSHOP.com, then moved the DB and images to the new server, and pointed the domain to the new DNS servers. I had to change the configure.php in /includes/ and admin/includes/ to match the "new" domain (/public_html/domain.com/domain.com/ --> /public_html/domain.com/). I don't think that this is relevant to the issues (errors), but that's how it was done.

However, I'm getting a couple (like 20-30) error messages when looking in the Error log. GoogleBot tries to access domainSHOP.com/domainSHOP.com:

[error] [client 66.249.71.230] File does not exist: /home/accountname/public_html/domainSHOP.com/domainSHOP.com

How can I figure out what's gone wrong? I'm sure it's quite simple, but cant find a way to figure it out.

I'm getting a couple of these errors as well (10-15 in a day):

File does not exist:/home/accountname/public_html/domainSHOP.com/401.shtml
File does not exist:/home/accountname/public_html/domainSHOP.com/403.shtml
File does not exist:/home/accountname/public_html/domainSHOP.com/404.shtml

[kobra]

As an add on it should be for the virtual path

/home/accountname/public_html/topdomain/addon domain

and just

http: //addon domain

for the server defines in your configure.php files

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As an add on it should be for the virtual path

/home/accountname/public_html/topdomain/addon domain

and just

http: //addon domain

for the server defines in your configure.php files

DIR_WS_CATALOG should be /home/accountname/public_html/topdomain/addon domain ? That is not how i've configured it. I've set DIR_FS_CATALOG to /home/accountname/public_html/addon domain and DIR_WS_CATALOG to / and HTTP_SERVER to http://domain.com

and was the double // intentional?

[kobra]

was the double // intentional?

Yes as it was for server define

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://addon domain.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://addon domain.com');

DIR_WS_CATALOG should be /home/accountname/public_html/topdomain/addon domain ?

NO
Read the comment above that entry
If at the root of the addon

// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ...
(ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');

Your DIR_FS_CATALOG look correct

Actually re-readin you look good

But there is still something amis as you posted ths

/home/accountname/public_html/domainSHOP.com/domainSHOP.com

You might need to post the actual error message instead of being secretive with it
You can use the code <> tags

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...

Thank you. I just reviewed the error log again and GoogleBot seems to have solved itself out. I still want to confirm that the configure.php is correct though. I do not feel comfortable writing out the urls here, but i can disguise it (call it secretive...)

To clearify (to myself mostly as I'm not 100% sure this is the way to do it)
domain.com is the actual domain the customers type to get to the shop. All the links (as i write them in relative terms) should be pointed directly to domain.com, e.g. http://domain.com/index.php?main_page=about_us.

The ftp folder structure is /public_html/domain.com/ in which where admin, includes etc reside. When I build the shop I added domain.com as an addon domain to my top domain (hereby called whatever.com), i.e. (removing language differences) a folder (domain.com) was created by cpanel. In this folder the shop is located. When I build the shop i accessed it through whatever.com/domain.com/index.php?main_page=index. When building was completed I pointed domain.com through my registrar to the new server DNS, thereby accessing the folder /public_html/domain.com by typing domain.com.

Is this a correct workflow? Everything seems to be working (people are shopping), but I the google errors make me unsure bots are indexing the site properly.

public_html/domain.com/includes/configure.php prior to pointing domain.com to the server:

// Define the webserver and path parameters
  // HTTP_SERVER is your Main webserver: eg-http://www.your_domain.com
  // HTTPS_SERVER is your Secure webserver: eg-https://www.your_domain.com
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://whatever.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://whatever.com');

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
  // these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/domain.com/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/domain.com/');

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
  define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
  define('DIR_WS_TEMPLATES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'templates/');

  define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
  //the following path is a COMPLETE path to your Zen Cart files. eg: /var/www/vhost/accountname/public_html/store/
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/accountname/public_html/domain.com/');

  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
  define('DIR_WS_UPLOADS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'uploads/');
  define('DIR_FS_UPLOADS', DIR_FS_CATALOG . DIR_WS_UPLOADS);
  define('DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'email/');

and after my edit:

// Define the webserver and path parameters
  // HTTP_SERVER is your Main webserver: eg-http://www.your_domain.com
  // HTTPS_SERVER is your Secure webserver: eg-https://www.your_domain.com
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://domain.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://domain.com');

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
  // these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
  define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
  define('DIR_WS_TEMPLATES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'templates/');

  define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
  //the following path is a COMPLETE path to your Zen Cart files. eg: /var/www/vhost/accountname/public_html/store/
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/accountname/public_html/domain.se/');

  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
  define('DIR_WS_UPLOADS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'uploads/');
  define('DIR_FS_UPLOADS', DIR_FS_CATALOG . DIR_WS_UPLOADS);
  define('DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'email/');

and /admin/includes/configure.php in a similar fashion.

Google error code

[Thu Dec 09 13:57:43 2010] [error] [client 66.249.71.230] File does not exist: /home/accountname/public_html/domain.com/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 09 13:57:43 2010] [error] [client 66.249.71.230] File does not exist: /home/accountname/public_html/domain.com/domain.com

Another question out of the blue regarding this addon domain thing. Where should I put robots.txt? I've put

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bmz_cache/

in it, but should it be positioned in public_html/ or public_html/domain.com? Path to the cache folder is public_html/domain.com/bmz_cache

Thanks a bunch for reading all this, it means the world to me!

[kobra]

All I can determine is that there is some reason that the bot is directed to

File does not exist: /home/accountname/public_html/domain.com/domain.com

And because of that - and this does not appear to be trapped by ZenCart, and you do not have a 404.shtml file/page that is also being listed as not found
Again you will have to decipher what domain.com/domain.com means

[scrap]

All I can determine is that there is some reason that the bot is directed to

File does not exist: /home/accountname/public_html/domain.com/domain.com

And because of that - and this does not appear to be trapped by ZenCart, and you do not have a 404.shtml file/page that is also being listed as not found
Again you will have to decipher what domain.com/domain.com means

Yes, I've created a 404, so that issue is resolved. However, I have no idea how to decipher domain.com/domain.com. I've put on a full access log which I'll eye through daily and closer review when the error occurs again. I haven't gotten any errors this day regarding this issue, so perhaps it was something temporary concerning the bots' interpretation of the server move.

Perhaps I'll get around the errors with missing bmz_cache files soon (Google Images forwards visitors to images that does not exist, it's a cache after all...); I put the robots.txt file i mentioned above both in /public_html/ and /public_html/domain.com/

Btw, thank you so much for taking your time!

[outletsky]

It is path wrong. Modify your config.php file in includes directory. If you don't know the right director path, you shoud copy this code in a file and visit it to find the correct path.

echo phpinfo();