Title: Timely plugin doesn't 404
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Timely plugin doesn't 404

 *  Resolved [kayeldee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayeldee/)
 * (@kayeldee)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/)
 * It seems like this plugin doesn’t 404 for urls under the action agenda.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/)

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 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497358)
 * What do you mean it “doesn’t 404”?
 *  Thread Starter [kayeldee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayeldee/)
 * (@kayeldee)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497361)
 * Have a look at this link:
 * [http://[site](http://[site) domain/etc]/action~agenda/tag_ids~329/cat_ids~296/
   http:/[site domain]/asdasdf/
 * I added “asdasdf” to that link myself.
 * And why is “http:/[site domain]” in the URL?
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497362)
 * i see it like this. [http://take.ms/vK64J](http://take.ms/vK64J) What’s wrong?
   there is just the extra http:/veg.ca/asdasdf/ at the end which is ignored
 *  Thread Starter [kayeldee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayeldee/)
 * (@kayeldee)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497367)
 * A bot was spamming that url (minus the garbage at the end i entered). We have
   a plugin installed that limits the amount of 404ing a bot can do. Since your 
   plugin wasn’t returning the 404 the bot was allowed to continue until we banned
   it’s IP on the server.
 * Also, I unchecked “Publicize, promote, and share my events marked as public on
   the Timely network” in case someone or thing is scanning your site for potential
   victims.
 * I’m removing the links from this thread now, please do the same.
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497392)
 * Hi, the problem is that bot ( even google bot ) can crawl the page indefinitely
   as most urls are valid. By default we try to create a robots.txt file which disallow
   crawling, although evil bots will ignore this. You can see in our settings page
   under “Advanced”. Maybe you just have to add rules to your robots.txt like
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /calendar/action~posterboard/ Disallow: /calendar/action
   ~agenda/ Disallow: /calendar/action~oneday/ Disallow: /calendar/action~month/
   Disallow: /calendar/action~week/ Disallow: /calendar/action~stream/
 * i’ll remove the links
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497394)
 * i can’t edit anything, i delted the image
 *  Thread Starter [kayeldee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayeldee/)
 * (@kayeldee)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497421)
 * Thanks for deleting the image and for the tips.
 * As you pointed out the robots.txt edit isn’t going to protect against bots that
   don’t respect robots.txt.
 * I also suspect this bot was referred from timely since it had our domain in the
   url params. Why would you need the domain in other parts of the url inside the
   plugin?
 * I understand that security is multilayered and we need to take other actions 
   to protect the server but you’re leaving the door open and we’d like to close
   it. Will you be updating the plugin to be more precise with urls? Or do you think
   it doesn’t matter?
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497432)
 * We do not have bots, we just send data to our plugin for statistic/analytics 
   use.
    There is an opt in dialogue when installing, and we do not collect info
   about event details. What we do is to allow navigation to any point in time. 
   an example of url is [http://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=4&ai1ec=action~agenda](http://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=4&ai1ec=action~agenda)
   |page_offset~1|time_limit~1417996801|request_format~html where the time_limit
   parameters is a unix timestamp. We never had any security issue with this, we
   had the issue that normal crawlers could overload the server, thus the robots.
   txt. If you think that the crawler is evil, report it to autorities or take some
   action like ban their IP, i don’t think this is “our fault”. In any case if you
   have suggestions they are welcome
 *  Thread Starter [kayeldee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayeldee/)
 * (@kayeldee)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497434)
 * I’m confused – we already had those urls in our robots.txt file.
 * What does this mean in settings:
 * “Publicize, promote, and share my events marked as public on the Timely network”
 * That is now off, but it was on earlier today.
 * My suggestion is to report 404s when they happen so that the other plugin can
   handle it.
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497462)
 * that settings is a leftover. Right now it just reports some analytics data to
   us. It is switched on if you download and activate any add on from our website.
   but if you look at our code, it doesn’t do anything harmful
    What you refer as
   a 404 for us is a valid page as i explained above. It’s difficult to “handle 
   it over”
 *  [nerimizi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerimizi/)
 * (@nerimizi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497658)
 * Hi Nicola,
    I can state that even if in my robots.txt I can find
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /calendar/action~posterboard/ Disallow: /calendar/action
   ~agenda/ Disallow: /calendar/action~oneday/ Disallow: /calendar/action~month/
   Disallow: /calendar/action~week/ Disallow: /calendar/action~stream/
 * Google bot report a lot of url (aprox 1500 !) as 404s
 * e.g.:
 * event/xxx/
    en/calendar/action~oneday/exact_date~yyyyyyyy/zzzzzzz/
 * How can I avoid all this errors ?
 * Thanks,
    nerimizi
 *  [Nicola Peluchetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolapeluchetti/)
 * (@nicolapeluchetti)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497666)
 * nermizi you must disallow all pages in robots.txt so if your calendar page is
 * `http:/yoursite.com/en/calendar`
 * you must disallow ( i just post one line for clarity )
 * `Disallow: /en/calendar/action~posterboard/`
 * if you have it in italian too it will be
 * `http:/yoursite.com/it/calendario`
 * and you will need to disallow
 * `Disallow: /it/calendario/action~posterboard/`
 *  [nerimizi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerimizi/)
 * (@nerimizi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497667)
 * Thanks !
 *  [Chad Warner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chad-warner/)
 * (@chad-warner)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timely-plugin-doesnt-404/#post-5497709)
 * Thank you, nicola.peluchetti. I too was seeing hundreds of 404s after installing
   this plugin. I noticed that my robots.txt already had several rules disallowing
   bots, but they started with previous slugs of my events page. I added new rules
   with the correct slug of the events page, and the 404s have stopped.

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