# Apache Log full of "OPTIONS \* HTTP/1.0" 200 **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [April 12, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-log-full-of-options-http-1-0-200/134560 "2008-04-12T01:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![S-gw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@S-gw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S-gw)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-log-full-of-options-http-1-0-200/134560/1 "2008-04-12T01:03:03Z")
Possibly not a Rails related deal, but I want to rule that out as the case or not. I have 4 web servers, two of which run Rails applications, all four of which run Lasso applications (this is relevant shortly). For the two Rails applications, the Apache logs have recently started having oodles of these lines. The weird part is that the request IP is the server’s own address. It’s also generating boatloads of dummy sessions. We’re turned off all monitoring systems (no impact), and I’ve even shut down mongrel/Rails itself now. After doing the latter. the Apache entries have continued but return a 503 code (and of course Rails session ceased as there’s no app to write them now) This is only happening on the two machines with Rails apps, and only in the Rails apps logs. It just so happens that the Rails apps are “www” while the other apps are other subdomains. Maybe the Rails factor is conincidence due to them being the default apps, but I can’t figure out what else to look for. I would suspect a bot trying to do something, but could it spoof the request IP to make it look like the request is coming from an internal process? – gw