I am praying someone can help me with this, I have researched this for hours.

In my 404 logs I am receiving 404's that include some of the following file URL's:

blue_bg.css
blue.css
general.css
system.css
template.css

and others.. this concerns me because I have checked my folder and file permissions, everything is good to go. I don't understand how people are accessing these files or why they are being reported as 404's. I've looked everywhere in this forum and could not find an answer. Can someone tell me if I should be worried about these or what I should do with these? Redirect them? just delete them? redirect them to the frontpage?

Any help or suggestions would be VERY appreciated. I thank you in advance for your time.

xoxo

A certain amount of strange requests are caused by hackers who try to break into systems with a reasonable amount of traffic.

Other strange requests may come from old sites which were formatted differently and still contained in caches somewhere.

This kind of 404 pages is annoying but generally harmless. It would be nice if we could sign those URL's to permanently hide them from the logs ;)

What would happen if I redirected these to my frontpage (www.carmetscientific.com).. would that screw things up? What do you do with yours? Doesn't Google hate these 404's being produced?

Also.. as an option in joomsef.. in the option where you select a filename extension in case its needed for certain search engines I chose index.php and that seems to be taking care of all the index.html and index.php 404's I am getting. Is this correct?

One more question (sorry).. check my site out www.carmetscientific.com. How would I remove "inventory" before my store categories. I've tried every option, I think this is a Joomsef bug.. correct?

Thanks soooo much!

Hello,

as regards 404 on .css files, I would not be worried about those. (just check your template you do not link to non-existient files in your header).

As regards removing the "inventory" in e-shop, you will need to check the checkbox next to the VirtueMart line in JoomSEF configuration. (that will remove the first part if the URL that is generated based on the menu item link that point to the estore component).

I'm so sorry, could you be more specific. There are several virtuemart options. None of the option in the general configuration say "virtumart" at all. Do you mind giving me a detailed account on how to remove "inventory" from my URLS?

www.carmetscientific.com

Thank you so much in advance for all of your help. I appreciate it.