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Here’s an oddity I discovered when building the search engine’s algorithm.

So, in order to count visits, a PHP script is executed, originally called views_tracker.php. When I ran my testing, I kept being greeted by an InfinityFree 403 page. I was stumped for ~4 minutes. I then changed the name of the file to views.php, and it works.

I think tracker, maybe track, is blocked on MOFH servers. If that’s true all around, I think this document needs updated.

If possible, can someone else test this out?

EDIT: On another domain, I made two PHP files, two HTML files, and two folders, named with track and tracker. The only file that was blocked with 403 was tracker.php. Nothing else.

Maybe the MOFH servers block PHP files that have tracker in their name?

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