On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Patricia Barden webmaster@prwatch.orgwrote:
Hello:
I recently did an upgrade from MediaWiki 1.8.2 to 1.15.1. I have a question post-upgrade that I'm hoping someone on the list can help me with.
Since upgrading, Apache server has been throwing errors like:
www.mywiki.org [Sun Nov 29 18:46:18 2009] [error] [client 206.213.251.31] script '/path/to/webroot/mywiki/INDEX.PHP' not found or unable to stat
This is unrelated to MediaWiki: those are bots probing your server for vulnerable scripts. (If you want reassurance, check your log from before the upgrade and you'll see the same errors in abundance.)
In general, this is nothing to worry about (unless you have vulnerable scripts in your web root :)).