.htaccess probelem causing 605 Error?
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I'm working on a site, it's just a few html pages and I've added a WP blog. I've just noticed that moz is giving me the following error with reference to http://website.com: (webmaster tools is set to show the www subdomain, so it appears OK).
Error Code 605: Page Banned by robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header, or Meta Robots Tag
Here's the code from my htaccess, is this causing the problem?
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>END WordPress
Thanks for any advice you can offer!
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Hey Matt Antonio!
I just wanted to clarify that this error isn't specific to the robots.txt file and can also indicate that we are being blocked by X-Robots Tag, HTTP Header, or Meta Robots Tag. Usually this error does indicate an actual issue with the site we are crawling rather than with our crawler.
The other Q&A post you mentioned is definitely an exception to that rule, but that issue was resolved in August 2014 and has not occurred again.
I hope that clears things up a bit. We are always happy to look into the specific issue causing the crawl error with a site, so I do agree that contacting the help team for these types of issues is often a good idea.
Thanks,
Chiaryn
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Hi Stevie-G,
I just took a look at your campaign and I am actually getting a 300 http response for your robots.txt file in the browser and in a CURL request from our crawler: http://www.screencast.com/t/UjiIU0MD
The only responses we can accept from the robots.txt file as allowing access to your site are 200 and 404 responses. (301s are also okay if the target URL resolves as a 200 or 404.) Any other http response is considered as denying access to your site, so we aren't able to crawl the site due to the 300 response code we receive from the robots.txt file.
I hope this helps!
Chiaryn
Help Team Sensei -
This happened before but they seemed to be blocking Roger:
I'm not sure if that's the current issue but if your actual /robots.txt file isn't blocking rogerbot, I can't imagine why you'd pull a 605 short of a technical Moz issue. May want to contact support and direct them here to see if it's a similar issue.
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