By Cristy
My business has been using an outside developer who has complete access to our site. Lately we have noticed many business anomalies that just don’t make sense and we are starting to suspect our developer may be managing a redirect within our server. We lack the technical skills to know what to look for and a review of our server visitor logs just makes us more confused and suspect. For instance our visitor log shows many random “xmlrpc.php” entries, but not sure if they are normal or not. We have been unable to locate any service or individual to assist us, so I’m hoping maybe someone in this community can make a suggestion, or possibly help by reviewing our logs and setup. I really hope we are not imposing, but we’re at our wits end. Thank you!
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Hi, I’m sorry, I’m not that familiar with different commands and am unsure what that is above, or where to retrieve it. I have access to our cpanel, but I would need direction to where start. I really appreciate your help!
Would you be able to post the output of the following command?
tail -50 /var/log/apache2/error.log
That’ll, at the very least, allow us to see some of what’s being logged, including the xmlrpc if the hit is logged to the error log.
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If you’d prefer to communicate privately, my e-mail is in my profile and we can discuss from there. I’ve worked with WordPress for quite some time and I am a sysadmin – I’ve also worked with a number of DigitalOcean customers from server setup to security and everything in between.
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