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    #1

    Sitemap 403 error

    Hi All,

    I did find some help in the search, but not enough to get me fixed.

    I get access denied if I try to fetch acatalog in Webmaster.

    I don't know where to implement the fix suggested in the report. Maybe its supposed to block it?

    Any advice appreciated........The Report follows.

    Thanks

    D


    Fetch as Google


    This is how Googlebot fetched the page.


    URL: http://www.thebabystudio.co.uk/acatalog/

    Date: Friday, March 28, 2014 at 8:42:47 AM PDT

    Googlebot Type: Web

    Download Time (in milliseconds): 180

    HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
    Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:42:47 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
    Last-Modified: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:24:14 GMT
    ETag: "1bc04be-3c4-8ee47b80"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 964
    X-Powered-By: PleskLin
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <H1>Forbidden</H1>
    You do not have permission to access this document.
    <P>
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>
    Web Server at thebabystudio.co.uk
    </ADDRESS>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

    <!--
    - Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
    - "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text of
    - an error's message is "too small", specifically
    - less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns
    - its own error message. You can turn that off,
    - but it's pretty tricky to find switch called
    - "smart error messages". That means, of course,
    - that short error messages are censored by default.
    - IIS always returns error messages that are long
    - enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The
    - workaround is pretty simple: pad the error
    - message with a big comment like this to push it
    - over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.
    - Of course, that's exactly what you're reading
    - right now.
    -->
    Last edited by The Baby Studio; 28-Mar-2014, 03:55 PM. Reason: Correction of error
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    #2
    You don't have an index.html (or index.htm) in your acatalog folder because your site uses shop.html instead.

    If these index files aren't there, then the URL http://www.thebabystudio.co.uk/acatalog/ is treated as a request to list all the files in that directory. This is usually denied by a well configured server as it's bad for security (would you want the world to have access to all the intimate data there like your error logs, session files, etc?).

    If you change your store top to index.html then you will be able to use that partial URL. However only do this if you don't rely on existing links that go to shop.html.
    Norman - www.drillpine.biz
    Edinburgh, U K / Bitez, Turkey

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      #3
      The sitemap page is normally called sitemap.html so I can't say I really understand what you're trying to do.

      Mike
      -----------------------------------------

      First Tackle - Fly Fishing and Game Angling

      -----------------------------------------

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        #4
        Originally posted by NormanRouxel View Post
        You don't have an index.html (or index.htm) in your acatalog folder because your site uses shop.html instead.

        If these index files aren't there, then the URL http://www.thebabystudio.co.uk/acatalog/ is treated as a request to list all the files in that directory. This is usually denied by a well configured server as it's bad for security (would you want the world to have access to all the intimate data there like your error logs, session files, etc?).

        If you change your store top to index.html then you will be able to use that partial URL. However only do this if you don't rely on existing links that go to shop.html.
        Thanks Norman,
        So basically what is happening is a good thing! I saw "error" and panicked , although I note that previous resubmissions of my sitemap.xml did not produce an error flag in Google webmaster.

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