diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 84367f7b..ffa39e24 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ def expofiles_redirect(request, filepath):
     """
     return redirect(urljoin("http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/", filepath))
 
-def spider(request, _):
-    # urls ending in "_edit_edit"  or .php
-    return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
-    # return redirect("/?#") # so that suffixes applied by spider are no longer part of the url
+def spider(request, path):
+    """These are simple filename filters set in urls.py that we know we don't have any of in troggle,
+    e.g. urls ending in "_edit_edit"  or .php
+    """
+    return logger404(request, path)
+     # return redirect("/?#") # so that suffixes applied by spider are no longer part of the url
 
 def map(request):
     """Serves unadorned the expoweb/map/slippy/map.html file"""
@@ -290,12 +292,22 @@ def mediapage(request, subpath=None, doc_root=None):
     else:
         return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": subpath}, status=404)
 
+def logger404(request, path, e=None):
+    logger = logging.getLogger('troggle')
+    meta = request.META
+    # stamp = datetime.now().isoformat(sep=' ', timespec='seconds')        
+    if not e:
+        logmsg = f"[{meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15}]  '/{path}' FILE NOT FOUND 404"
+        logger.warning(logmsg)
+    else:
+        logmsg = f"[{meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15}]  '/{path}' EXCEPTION:'{e}'"
+        logger.warning(logmsg)
+    return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
 
 def expopage(request, path):
     """Either renders an HTML page from expoweb with all the menus,
     or serves an unadorned binary file with mime type
     """
-    logger = logging.getLogger('troggle')
     # print(" - EXPOPAGES delivering the file: '{}':{} as MIME type: {}".format(request.path, path,getmimetype(path)),flush=True)
 
     if path.startswith("noinfo") and settings.PUBLIC_SITE and not request.user.is_authenticated:
@@ -336,27 +348,16 @@ def expopage(request, path):
             + "<h3>UTF-8 Parsing Failure:<br>Default file encoding on this Troggle installation is not UTF-8:<br>failure detected in expowebpage in views.expo.py</h3> Please Please reconfigure Debian/Apache/Django to fix this, i.e. contact Wookey. </body"
         )
 
-    meta = request.META
-    stamp = datetime.now().isoformat(sep=' ', timespec='seconds')
     try:
         content = open(filetobeopened, "rb")
         content_type = getmimetype(path)
         return HttpResponse(content=content, content_type=content_type)
     except FileNotFoundError as e:
-        message = f" ! - 404 FileNotFound REMOTE_ADDR: {meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15} [{stamp}] '/{path}'"
-        #DataIssue.objects.create(parser="view404", message=message)   
-        logmsg = f"[{meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15}]  '/{path}' FILE NOT FOUND 404"
-        logger.warning(logmsg)
-        return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
+        return logger404(request, path)
     except Exception as e:
-        message = f" ! - 404? REMOTE_ADDR: {meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15} [{stamp}] '/{path}' {e}"
-        #DataIssue.objects.create(parser="view404", message=message)   
-        logmsg = f"[{meta['REMOTE_ADDR']:>15}]  '/{path}' FILE NOT FOUND 404"
-        logger.warning(logmsg)
-        return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
+        return logger404(request, path, e)
       
 
-
 def getmimetype(path):
     """Our own version rather than relying on what is provided by the python library. Note that when
     Apache or nginx is used to deliver /expofiles/ it will use it's own idea of mimetypes and
diff --git a/urls.py b/urls.py
index 2f2ebfcd..a01230b7 100644
--- a/urls.py
+++ b/urls.py
@@ -158,12 +158,12 @@ trogglepatterns = [
     path('expofiles/', include(expofilesurls)), # intercepted by Apache, if it is running.
     path('expofiles',  include(expofilesurls)), # curious interaction with the include() here, not just a slash problem.
 
-    re_path(r'^(.*)_edit_edit$',    spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
-    re_path(r'^(.*)\.php$',         spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
-    re_path(r'^(.*)\.do$',          spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
-    re_path(r'^wp-admin(.*)',         spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
-    re_path(r'^wp-content(.*)',         spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
-    re_path(r'^wp-includes(.*)',         spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(.*_edit_edit)$',     spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(.*.php)$',           spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(.*\.do)$',           spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(wp-admin.*)',        spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(wp-content.*)',      spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
+    re_path(r'^(wp-includes.*)',     spider, name="spider"), # web spider or bot. Intercept and manage it.
 
     re_path(r'^caves$',      cavesall,      name="cavesall"),
     re_path(r'^indxal.htm$', cavesall,      name="cavesall"), # ~420 hrefs to this url in expoweb files