Hello all, I notice that there are lots of cgi:error in my apache error log. here are some samples:
[Sun Feb 16 09:14:26.277308 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1728] [client 202.158.37.2:12576] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php
[Sun Feb 16 09:14:26.714109 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1720] [client 202.158.37.2:12652] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php5
[Sun Feb 16 09:14:27.150910 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1752] [client 202.158.37.2:12745] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php-cgi
[Sun Feb 16 09:14:27.587711 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1748] [client 202.158.37.2:12816] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php.cgi
[Sun Feb 16 09:14:28.008911 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1744] [client 202.158.37.2:12861] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php4
[Sun Feb 16 09:18:39.700750 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1728] [client 213.167.153.173:34001] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php
[Sun Feb 16 09:18:40.652352 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1748] [client 213.167.153.173:34108] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php5
[Sun Feb 16 09:18:41.120353 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1744] [client 213.167.153.173:34195] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php-cgi
[Sun Feb 16 09:18:41.635154 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1720] [client 213.167.153.173:34256] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php.cgi
[Sun Feb 16 09:18:42.087554 2014] [cgi:error] [pid 4752:tid 1752] [client 213.167.153.173:34303] script not found or unable to stat: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/php4
How can I prevent this kind of attack? I am not sure if they did some damages or not at the movement? can I make /cgi-bin/ folder not accessible in xampp apache
Please advise? thank you!!!