we migrated our website onto VPS server (CentOS 5.6 + Plesk 9.5), everything works nice, but one strange thing that i noticed in Plesk, is error_log file, most of the time it filled up with hundreds entries like:
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[Thu Aug 10 11:35:48 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/category1
[Thu Aug 10 11:35:48 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/category2
....
If i open those urls (ex. http://yourdomain.com/category2)
in my web browser everything works well, no 404 error, headers response 200 so everything works as should and i see page that i wanted. But why log file see it as an error and states that file is not exist? Also i want to mention that "category1", "category2" is not physical directories, it's .htacess and mod_rewrite managed paths, so not real folders.
mod_rewrite seems not to properly tell to the log system that the request should not be considered as a 404 when it looks like a file/folder that doesn't exist physically but handled by mod_rewrite.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Tim