[mythtv-users] Google ate my recordings

[Brian Wood]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Glenn Chubak wrote:

> First, I do recognize that I am an idiot and that this is entirely  
> my fault.
> The point of this post is mostly a reminder to not be stupid like me.
>
> I recently migrated my myth install to a new server and rather than  
> setup the
> appropriate security on mythweb I just blocked outside access.  It  
> was good
> enough for the moment.  My daughter's first birthday comes along  
> and I want
> to through a video up for an aunt that couldn't come so I (ENTIRELY  
> without
> thinking) enable http access from outside on the server.  Stupid!   
> The next
> day my wife says that about 3:00 all of the recordings disappeared  
> from myth.
> Strange...  I begin investigating and find that they have been  
> deleted from
> the web interface.  Checking the apache access logs reveals that  
> the culprit
> is none other than googlebot which seems to have crawled my pages and
> followed the link into mythweb.  googlebot seems to have followed  
> the delete
> links and voila no more recordings.
>
> I would have thought that mythweb "Are you sure?" dialogs would  
> have stopped
> the googlebot but it doesn't seem so.  If anyone is interested I  
> can post the
> access logs from apache.

You're certainly not the first. Check the thread "Visit from the  
Googlebot" in the archives.