Fetch as GoogleBot "Unreachable Page"
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Hi,
We are suddenly having an error "Unreachable Page" when any page of our site is accessed as Googlebot from webmaster tools. There are no DNS errors shown in "Crawl Errors".
We have two web servers named web1 and web2 which are controlled by a software load balancer HAProxy. The same network configuration has been working for over a year now and never had any GoogleBot errors before 21st of this month.
We tried to check if there could be any error in sitemap, .htaccess or robots.txt by excluding the loadbalancer and pointing DNS to web1 and web2 directly and googlebot was able to access the pages properly and there was no error. But when loadbalancer was made active again by pointing the DNS to it, the "unreachable page" started appearing again. This very same configuration has been working properly for over a year till 21st of this month.
Website is properly accessible from browser and there are no DNS errors either as shown by "Crawl Errors". Can you guide me about how to diagnose the issue. I've tried all sorts of combinations, even removed the firewall but no success. Is there any way to get more details about error instead of just "Unreachable Page" error ?
Regards,
shaz
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Its a glitch. Google knows about it. Been happening on all sites we maintain for about 4 days now.
Heard this morning that they are aware of it and it will be fixed soon.C
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Hi Shaz,
I have also started noticing that this is happening over a couple of my accounts. I think that it may have something to do with the recent Google update (however, I could be wrong).
Hopefully this is just a glitch from Google. If anyone does have any info, I'd really like to know as well!
Matt.
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