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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:57:07+00:00

I’ve been getting these messages in apache error.log for quite a while: [client 217.197.152.228]

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I’ve been getting these messages in apache error.log for quite a while:

[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/phpmyadmin
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/pma
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/admin
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/dbadmin
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/myadmin
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/PHPMYADMIN
[client 217.197.152.228] File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin

And many more different addresses. Looks like somebody is trying to guess where my admin applications are located. What should I fear in this situation, and what a knowledge of my admin addresses can give to attacker, if everything is password protected?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If everything is locked down well, fear nothing. These are just automated attacks that happen to every URL in existence. Same thing happens to me, and I don’t even run PHP on my server.

    If you don’t have the latest patches (like on say, WordPress), then yes this is a big problem, but one that’s relatively easy to fix.

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