Sitemap could not be read: HTTP 403

Hello Fello · May 19, 2020

Unable to fetch my sitemap. Says couldn't be read.

We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

HTTP error 403.

Any fix?

Gogol · May 19, 2020

There's something wrong with your server. Check the error log. It will give you exactly what os wrong.

Otherwise, let me get a talking parrot on my desk. I will let you know once I have one.

Hello Fello · May 19, 2020

Gogol said:
There's something wrong with your server. Check the error log. It will give you exactly what os wrong.

Otherwise, let me get a talking parrot on my desk. I will let you know once I have one.

I am not technical. How to check error logs? I'll submit this to my hosting provider.

Gogol · May 19, 2020

Hello Fello said:
I am not technical. How to check error logs? I'll submit this to my hosting provider.

Yupp, ask your hosting provider; or the developer who developed this. If you are using cpanel, the error log could be in the panel as well.

Mr Positive · May 19, 2020

If you have yoast disable it, and then try or ask your host too

Hello Fello · May 19, 2020

Gogol said:
Yupp, ask your hosting provider; or the developer who developed this. If you are using cpanel, the error log could be in the panel as well.

It's just my blog. Not any developer made this. Hosting is saying contact your developer - i mean wtf

Hello Fello · May 19, 2020

Mr Positive said:
If you have yoast disable it, and then try or ask your host too

Already tried. Not working!

Forseti · May 20, 2020

Try re-creating the site map and replacing it. Is the site map at the root of the site?

Gogol · May 20, 2020

Hello Fello said:
It's just my blog. Not any developer made this. Hosting is saying contact your developer - i mean wtf

99.99% times, it is your script which is the culprit. So, they are right about it. I would suggest you to hire someone from here and fix it. Post in the HaF section for that.

MisterXYZ · May 20, 2020

Can you access your sitemap from browser.

If you are using any plugin for sitemap. Try to use different one.

homenet · May 20, 2020

403 = Forbidden. Have you verified your sitemap URL is correct? Can you open a new tab and browse to it succesfully? If so it sounds like Googlebot is being denied access to it. Check your robots.txt (http://www.yoururl.com/robots.txt) and let us know what it says.

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