Can´t verify my site on Google (error 403 Forbidden). I have other sites in the same host with no problems whatsoever

Posted by Rosamunda Rosamunda on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Rosamunda Rosamunda
Published on 2012-09-19T03:32:21Z Indexed on 2012/09/19 3:53 UTC
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I can´t verify my site on Google.

I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host.

I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the options that Google tell me that I should activate...), and Google Analytics.

I always get this response:

Verification failed for http://www.mysite.com/ using the Google Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of 403 (Forbidden) instead of 200 (OK).

I´ve checked the server headers, and I get this result:

  1. REQUESTING: http://www.mysite.com GET / HTTP/1.1 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: 300 Accept:/ Host: www.mysite.com Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)

SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:25:22 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.2.17 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Final Destination Page (It shows my actual homepage).

What can I do? The hosting is the very same as in my other sites, where I didn´t have any issue at all! Thanks for your help!

Note: As I have a Drupal 7 site, I´ve tried a "Drupal solution" first, but haven´t found any that solved this issue...

How can it be forbidden when I can access the link perfectly ok? Is there any solution to this? Thanks!

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