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#14973 The IP 66.249.73.237 was owned by google was blocked

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:44 CST

Sunday, 10 February 2013 05:30 CST

user71708

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: (5.2.17)
MySQL version: (5.0.96-community)
Host: (hostdime)
Admin Tools version: (2.4.4)

Description of my issue:

The IP

66.249.73.237 was owned by google was blocked. Seei Whois lookup:

 

NetRange:       66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255

CIDR:           66.249.64.0/19

OriginAS:       

NetName:        GOOGLE

NetHandle:      NET-66-249-64-0-1

Parent:         NET-66-0-0-0-0

NetType:        Direct Allocation

RegDate:        2004-03-05

Updated:        2012-02-24

Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-66-249-64-0-1

 

 

OrgName:        Google Inc.

OrgId:          GOGL

Address:        1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

City:           Mountain View

StateProv:      CA

PostalCode:     94043

Country:        US

RegDate:        2000-03-30

Updated:        2011-09-24

Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOGL

 

I'm worried because the admin tools may have blocked google indexing robot. Initially configured so that the file sitemap.xml had direct access, in authoring tool htacess.

I need to do something, or is this correct IP block?

Sunday, 10 February 2013 05:34 CST

nicholas

First go to Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF. Make sure "Log security exceptions" is set to Yes; if it's not, set it to Yes and click on Save. Now try reproducing your issue. Immediately after that, please go to Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Security Exceptions Log and go to the last page. The last log entry should have the date and time of when the issue occurred. Please copy the Reason and Target URL here so that I can help you.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 11 February 2013 13:04 CST

user71708

follows attached image with the log ... I think this is the IP robo google and thus could be placed on the white list .... am I right?

Monday, 11 February 2013 13:59 CST

nicholas
No, you should not add any IP to the whitelist. You just have to disable the block of template= from the Configure WAF page.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 11 February 2013 14:42 CST

user71708

What can I do this? Can you explain to me ....

 

Tks a lot

Monday, 11 February 2013 14:53 CST

user71708

What can I do this? Can you explain to me ....

 What parameters I need change? (see printscreen)

 

Tks

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:44 CST

nicholas

Go to Components, Admin Tools. Click on Web Application Firewall. Click on Configure WAF. Under "Visual Fingerprinting Protection" you can do one of the following:

  • (recommended) Set "Allow site templates" to Yes.
  • (if the above didn't work) find the "Block template=foo site template switch" and set it to No

Please note something very important: if the first solution didn't work, I do NOT recommend following the second one. In fact, it would mean that Google has cached an inexistent / invalid URL and throwing 403 to it when it tries to access it is the best approach to have it removed from its cache.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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