404 (file not found)

[Marcus_Westberg]

I get this message while trying to verify my sitemap at google.

We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (OK) in the header.

The problem is that i already confgured my webserver to show 404.
Are there anything else that i didn´t think of?
And i did it several days ago but it still shows this message.
I have managed to verify one of my other websites without any problem, could the problem have to do with google perhaps.

The site I´m trying to get verified now is the on i have in my signature it´s in PHP.

Can I edit myself somehow?

[digitalpoint]

It does show a 200 OK (good document) for any random page you go to. For example:

-Monkey:~ shawn$ curl -I http://www.add-url.googlepagerankings.com/blahblahwdf3f

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:27:44 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.3.11 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.6b FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_throttle/3.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

[Marcus_Westberg]

It does show a 200 OK (good document) for any random page you go to. For example:

-Monkey:~ shawn$ curl -I http://www.add-url.googlepagerankings.com/blahblahwdf3f

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:27:44 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.3.11 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.6b FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_throttle/3.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8


now it works :) must have been the long delay with my webhost i guess. 2 days

[digitalpoint]

I'm still showing a 200 OK for any random URL I type... but that's cool... I guess Google doesn't care. :)

[Marcus_Westberg]

How can u check my 404 status? Do u use some kind of tool?
If u have any suggestions how i can do the same i would be grateful

[digitalpoint]

I use an app called "curl" from a shell, but here's a web based one for you that should work:

http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

[Marcus_Westberg]

It works great, but my code still shows 200 as u said, maybe it´s just temporary.... anyway thanks :)