Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Solution Tutorial: How To solve HTTP Error: 403 error in google webmaster tools sitemap

Hey

Today i'm going to give you a very important solution on google web master tools.
When i was submitting sitemap for my joomla site in google webmaster i was getting this error

"General HTTP error: HTTP 403 error (Forbidden)
HTTP Error: 403"

Here is 2 issues and it's solution

At first check your error logs

1. Sometime some hosting server or firewall are blocking Googlebot either by IP, ip range or user agent test.
Talk to your web hosting company and be papered to fight because they will most likely deny it.

2. Check the error logs.The IP address belongs to a Google bot and your .htaccess has blocked it.

This is why you are receiving the 403 error. if you ahead and
commented the line out and the issue should be resolved.
Change it
Deny from env=bot_crawler_spider
 into
#Deny from env=bot_crawler_spider

and at It'll looks like 

BrowserMatchNoCase bot crawler spider bot_crawler_spider
Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from env=bot_crawler_spider

Thanks

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