Sergiu Dumitriu-2 wrote
One important question nobody asked so far: are you using any custom authenticator or rights implementation, like LDAP, Kerberos or another SSO?
We are using XEM with a couple of managed wikis. The authentication of the main-wiki (Manage-Wiki) and all sub-wikis is via mysql db but one wiki uses the XWiki build-in LDAP authentication with the LDAP Extension to ease the configuration. The rights management is the XWiki's default for all wikis. We are experiencing this crawler edits/deletions on all public wikis, the Manage-Wiki is behind a .htaccess, set via apache. Sergiu Dumitriu-2 wrote
Another possibility is that the servlet container or a frontend server is mangling sessions, putting the Google bot in the same session as a valid authenticated user. Can you give us more details about your setup? Like: Tomcat + Apache HTTPD + mod_proxy_http
our server architecture: apache2 is our web frontend server which sends requests for XWiki specific urls via mod_jk to the Tomcat servlet server. configuration details: apache2: - mainly debian default base-configuration (except specific site-configuration) - mod_jk for apache to tomcat connection tomcat6: - one AJP/1.3 connector only on localhost - only XEM running on tomcat XWiki 3.4 (xwiki.cfg): - custom "xwiki.authentication.validationKey" and "xwiki.authentication.encryptionKey" are set - "xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl" - "xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=127.0.0.1" and "xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389" - no further LDAP configuration in xwiki.cfg (made direct in the specific wiki) The LDAP-Wiki: - LDAP Login-Matching like: "uid={0},ou=users,dc=example,dc=com" - Password-Matching: "{1}" - LDAP Base DN: "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com" - UID Attribute Name: "uid" - update from LDAP: yes - try local login: yes - group-mapping like: XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup=cn=admin,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com - sync-mode: always OpenLDAP: - listens 127.0.0.1 and port 389 only Some additional notes: We are using LDAP to share one user-database with our public forum. So we are running phpBB and XWiki connected to the same LDAP directory. Thanks for your time Jan -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/severe-trouble-with-web-crawlers-tp7442162... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.