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\n When you \n Some of you have gotten the following message when trying to verify your site: \n We have looked into this and have found that we are displaying the incorrect error message. What \n We are working to display the correct response for these cases. In the meantime, if you see this
\n verify site ownership<\/a>,
\n we check to see if the verification file exists on your webserver. We also make sure that your
\n server returns a status of 404 (not found)<\/code> when we request a file that doesn’t exist.
\n We do this to make sure that when we check to see if the verification file exists, we’re getting
\n the right response because it does exist and not because the server is misconfigured.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We couldn’t find your verification file. Make sure it is named correctly and is
\n uploaded to the correct location.”<\/strong> But when you check the file in a browser, it does
\n exist.\n<\/p>\n
\n is actually happening in this case is that when we request a file that doesn’t exist, we are
\n getting a response other than 404<\/code> v\u0259 ya 200<\/code>. (If we get a response of
\n 200<\/code>, we display a
\n different error message<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n
\n message when you try to verify and your verification does exist in the correct location, check
\n your webserver configuration and make sure that it returns a status of 404<\/code> when a
\n request is made for a non-existent page.\n<\/p>\n