Defacement/SEO Spam Guard

Werner Frings · 2026-07-22T08:35:59+00:00

Ein wunderbares Tool. Auf einer meiner 5 Seiten habe ich auf der Startseite einige Links zu meinen anderen Seiten. Das mag der SEO Wächter nicht, obwohl ich die Linksadressen alle deklariert habe. Es ist unsschön, dauernd diesen roten Alarmpunkt in der Übersicht zu sehen, obwohl alles ok ist. Mache ich was falsch oder ist das ein Tip, es noch besser zu machen? fragt mit freundlichen Grüßen Werner

Werner Frings

A fantastic tool.
On one of my 5 sites, I have some links on the homepage to my other sites.
The SEO guard doesn't like that, even though I've declared all the link addresses.
It's annoying to constantly see that red alert dot in the overview, even though everything's fine.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a tip on how to do it even better?
Best regards,
Werner

Pascal

Hi Werner,

Thanks for reporting this and welcome to the forum! 🙂

In the page source, the closing </html> tag appears multiple times – you can see this by typing view-source: before the URL. If there’s any content after the last </html> (like your links), HTProtect currently assumes it’s been injected – that’s why you’re getting the alert.

You can manually remove the extra </html> tags or wait for version 2.5.2. In that update, the last </html> will be treated as the end of the document, so these cases will be handled properly.

Alternatively, you can install the attached ZIP file now and let me know if everything works fine with it.

Cheers,
Pascal

htprotect-shield-252.zip

769kB

Werner Frings

Thanks, Pascal. After updating to 2.5.2 everything was fine. Only in the Htprotect.app it still shows 2.5.1 and the problem remains. It’s probably fixed in 2.5.2.
Thanks again.
Cheers
Werner

Pascal

The sites only send a heartbeat every 30 minutes, so they should turn green again on their own. Otherwise, you can manually refresh the status by clicking the "Update Status" button in the detailed view to get the latest info, making sure everything matches the current state in the backend.

In general, I want to keep requests and data exchange as minimal as possible – but I'll see what I can do to improve things so that sites with a non-green status in the .app dashboard get pinged more often when logged in.