(Friendly and compliant) web crawlers look for robots.txt when they index sites. I'm not entirely sure about favicon.ico. I think it gets pulled by some browsers so that if you bookmark a favorite, you get a site-specific icon rather than a generic one in the bookmarks list. Bottom line, though, is that neither is related to wa. Nathan At 11:19 AM 2/9/2004 -0500, Bill Verity wrote: >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"? > > >-- >Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. >Be a "carrier". > >Bill Verity - 814-865-4758 Fax: 814-863-7049 >215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services, Penn State >University >At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)