By enjoypb
Why is my /var/log/nginx/error.log filled with traffic that doesn’t have anything to do with my domain? Does my error.log track every other site you host on the same server as my domain? I have thousands of these error messages in a couple of days. Thanks!
2019/07/16 15:15:30 [error] 26949#0: *3117 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 217.113.119.54, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingapartment.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:30 [error] 26948#0: *3118 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 217.113.119.54, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingblackjack.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:50 [error] 26949#0: *3119 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingbaseball.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:50 [error] 26949#0: *3120 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingbaseball.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:51 [error] 26949#0: *3121 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingbaseball.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:52 [error] 26949#0: *3122 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingbaseball.com"
2019/07/16 15:15:59 [error] 26949#0: *3123 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 217.118.64.42, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "newsfafrica.com"
2019/07/16 15:16:11 [error] 26949#0: *3124 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/robots.txt" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 66.249.64.95, server: _, request: "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingbaseball.com"
2019/07/16 15:16:13 [error] 26949#0: *3125 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingapartment.com"
2019/07/16 15:16:19 [error] 26949#0: *3126 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingapartment.com"
2019/07/16 15:16:19 [error] 26948#0: *3127 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/wp-login.php" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 142.93.214.242, server: _, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "shoppingapartment.com"
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Hello,
It looks like that someone is trying to bruteforce your website by making a lot of POST requests to your /wp-login.php file.
This is the login page for Wordpress websites, but in your case I guess that you are not using Wordpress so there is nothing to worry about.
Those requests are usually made by bots which are targeting random websites.
This actually is happening to me as well, I have a lot of wp-login hits but I’m not using Wordpress neither.
Hope that this helps! Bobbby
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