On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:19:30 EST, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> said: > This is probably a general web server question. When I look at the > "error_log" file for apache on the machine that runs "wa" (that's the > only thing it does), is see a number of entries like > > File does not exist: /etc/local/apache/htdocs/robots.txt > File does not exist: /etc/local/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico > > I'm not aware of having any html that looks for these files. Are > they something generic or is this specific to "wa"? That's because you probably don't. Anything fetching robots.txt is probably a spider for Google or other search engine - I can't remember offhand who fetches favicon.ico (I suspect both IE and Mozilla do - that's where they get the little site icon for the location bar).