If've found a new error message in our log files and would like to know, for what this .well_known
folder is used for.
Which application/client would need to access such a folder and which application would create files inside it?
Here are some entries of the PHP error log of one of my domain. (I removed the date, IP and target domains.)
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 851#0: *88611 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/apple-app-site-association HTTP/1.1", host: "exampleA.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 850#0: *89749 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/assetlinks.json HTTP/1.1", host: "exampleA.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 850#0: *89767 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/assetlinks.json HTTP/1.1", host: "exampleB.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 853#0: *90120 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/apple-app-site-association HTTP/1.1", host: "exampleB.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 853#0: *90622 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/apple-app-site-association HTTP/1.1", host: "www.exampleB.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 853#0: *90926 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/assetlinks.json HTTP/1.1", host: "www.exampleA.com"
0000/00/00 00:00:00 [error] 854#0: *91780 access forbidden by rule, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /.well-known/apple-app-site-association HTTP/1.1", host: "exampleA.com"
First I thought that I could be the one who generated this, but at the times I wasn't accessing/working these domains. And these access requests comes from 3 of our domains. (with different web-applications)
INFO1: It seems the IP is from the Googlebot (crawler) But why is it so important to access these files? (We don't have these files in the folders. I checked for hidden files in all domain root directories.)