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#14061 403 Error in googlewebmastertools for sitemap

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 09 November 2012 09:47 CST

CarlosC
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.8)
PHP version: (5.3.13)
MySQL version: (5.1.53-log)
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.8)
PHP version: (5.3.13)
MySQL version: (5.1.53-log)
Host: (dreamhost.com)
Admin Tools version: (2.4.1)

Description of my issue:

I am using xmap and Google gives me a 403 Error to my xml sitemap http://www.messerguide.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&view=xml&tmpl=component&id=1
So I have tried to define a WAF exception like “ com_xmap xml 1”. But it doesn’t work.

Also I have tried to define the IP-exception for google, msn and yahoo in the configuration like this:
64.233.160.0-64.233.191.255;66.102.0.0-66.102.15.255;66.249.64.0-66.249.95.255;72.14.192.0-72.14.255.255;74.125.0.0-74.125.255.255;209.85.128.0-209.85.255.255;216.239.32.0-216.239.63.255;64.4.0.0-64.4.63.255;65.52.0.0-65.55.255.255;157.54.0.0-157.60.255.255;207.46.0.0-207.46.255.255;207.68.128.0-207.68.207.255;8.12.144.0-8.12.144.255;66.196.64.0-66.196.127.255;66.228.160.0-66.228.191.255;67.195.0.0-67.195.255.255;68.142.192.0-68.142.255.255;72.30.0.0-72.30.255.255;74.6.0.0-74.6.255.255;202.160.176.0-202.160.191.255;209.191.64.0-209.191.127.255
I do not know if this is correct, nor than if it is useful, should I delete them? because it dose not work.
Do you know where is my mistake?
What is the right way to let google read my sitemap?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You should add a WAF Exception where the option is set to com_xmap and the other two fields left blank. This will turn off WAF for XMap and allow the sitemap to be read by search engines. I do not recommend following the IP approach as search engines do change their IP ranges very frequently for security reasons.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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