jamestl2 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 This is my first post I am trying to get my web site verified by Google I keep getting the error “We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.” My site is www.toptenlisted.com I already tried adding a META tag and uploading an HTML File, but neither worked, so I am trying to figure out how to change the error page to 404, from 200 Any suggestions would be appreciated Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 Welcome to the forum and the family When I try to look at your site I get 500 Internal Server Error check the prmissions of your public_html folder in an ftp program or cpanels file manager to make sure it is set to 750 If that does not help open a help desk ticket to the techs., link at top of this page. As to the error page returning a status of 200 does your 404 error page return to your home page? Google may try to look for a non existing page to test your error page and if your error page returns or redirects to your home page the status may be 200. Quote
jamestl2 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 My Site is working now, but as for the error page, No, it does not return to the homepage, I tried to change it under the "error pages" icon in my cPanel account, as that is probably where it is directing error pages, but Google still says it is at 200 Quote
TCH-Andy Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 Hi James, welcome to the forums Because you have an error page that you created, when google tries to get an error (404) by going to an invalid page, it goes to the page you redirect to and hence gets a success (200). You can either use the META tag method, or remove your 404 redirect on error (you can do that either in cpanel or by editing the .htaccess file) Quote
jamestl2 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Thanks for the help so far, but I do not know what to change. I do not have any "custom-made" error pages nor do I redirect them anywhere anymore I am not sure what changes I should make to the .htaccess file code, below is all the code I have for that file: # -FrontPage- IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName www.toptenlisted.com AuthUserFile /home/mspqlbpr/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/mspqlbpr/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.toptenlisted.com/Index.html Quote
TCH-Andy Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 At the moment you also have the parked nameservers in your DNS (park3.secureserver.net and park3.secureserver.net) which means I'm not going to your site at the moment. Please delete these two entries and just leave ns1.totalchoicehosting.com and ns2.totalchoicehosting.com Quote
jamestl2 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Thanks for all the help My site has now been verified Quote
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