Google verification

[Don Chambers]

Google utilities require verification. I selected the method of adding a specified google_generated_filename.html to my web root.

This worked just fine a week or so ago. Now google is telling me it is receiving a 404 not found error. The file is definitely there.

I have not change my .htaccess file, but it does contain this:

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RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]

Is that part of the problem, and if so, what should I do to correct it?

[garvinhicking]

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?p=65 ... ght=#65679?

(hope babelfish can help, otherwise I'll try tomorrow )

[chickens]

(hope babelfish can help, otherwise I'll try tomorrow )

Google translator seems to work:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... n&ie=UTF-8

[Don Chambers]

That did not seem to work. Here is my entire htaccess:

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# BEGIN s9y
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
DirectoryIndex /index.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^((archives/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.html)/?) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(feeds/categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(feeds/authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives([/A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html index.php?url=/archives/$1.html [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*\.html index.php?url=$1-article.html [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^feeds/(.*) index.php?url=/feeds/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^unsubscribe/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/unsubscribe/$1/$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^approve/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=approve/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^delete/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=delete/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(admin|entries)(/.+)? index.php?url=admin/ [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^archive/? index.php?url=/archive [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(index|atom[0-9]*|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml) rss.php?file=$1&ext=$2
RewriteRule ^(plugin|plugin)/(.*) index.php?url=$1/$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.*) index.php?url=/search/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/(.*) index.php?url=/comments/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(serendipity\.css|serendipity_admin\.css) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index\.(html?|php.+) index.php?url=index.html [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^htmlarea/(.*) htmlarea/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^google4e610ac711a08486.html google4e610ac711a08486.html [L]

<Files *.tpl.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.tpl>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
    deny from all
</Files>

# END s9y

Not sure if it matters or not, but when s9y was originally configured, there was no rewriting. When I was messing around with the sitemap generator, I changed that to Use Apache mod_rewrite.

This is a shared server.

[kleinerChemiker]

put the line on the beginning of the rewrite rules.
but better would be, if you use a meta-tag.

[carl_galloway]

I actually used the html head nugget and went the meta tag route as suggest by kleinerChemiker, it's far easier than stuffing around with your .htaccess or server 404 rules.

[Don Chambers]

put the line on the beginning of the rewrite rules.

before, or after, RewriteBase, or does it matter?

but better would be, if you use a meta-tag.

Why?

[kleinerChemiker]

.htaccess is autogenerated by s9y. if it is rewritten, all your changes get lost.

after the rewrite base

[Don Chambers]

Thanks kleinerChemiker.