Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 10 May 2006 12:54 GMT-0000 posts: 4667

> I have recently tried to verify my ownership of a site with Google for submission of my site to the search engine. When I have done what they ask, Google has returned this error message:
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> We have detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a 200 status in the header.
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> Is this something that Tiki does, or is it a server setting?

A quick google turned up this link:
http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2005/09/verifying-your-site-trouble-with-404.html. Seems like its your server rather than Tiki.

-- Gary - zukakakina.com

Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 10 May 2006 21:15 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

Are you using a custom 404 page in your htaccess? I had this same problem. To let Goolge verify your site:

1. Temporarily rename your htaccess file.
2. Reverify your site with Google.
3. Retore your htaccess file.

I had to do the same thing, took about 5 minutes.

HTH,

-Rick

> I have recently tried to verify my ownership of a site with Google for submission of my site to the search engine. When I have done what they ask, Google has returned this error message:
>
> We have detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a 200 status in the header.
>
> Is this something that Tiki does, or is it a server setting?