Mark,
I would open up a ticket with e-rice and see if they can see an issue with it. They are usually pretty good getting back to you in a timely manner.
Chuck
OK…Will do…Thanks.
The longest I waited was about 12 hours but that was on a weekend. But usually 2-4 hours is the norm. Granted if you do it at night it take a while.
Chuck
I opened a ticket when i first switched about some ftp problems and it took 2 days for a response. Hopefully I’ll get a faster response this time around.
Where do you see the error?
In the Google webmaster tools. Google wont validate my sitemap since switching to e-rice. Not sure if the timing is a coincidence or not.
Just as a data point. I use E-Rice and I don’t have a problem with the sitemap.
Mike
Edit: Well I should have checked before posting this. I went to the webmaster tools
and sure enough I have the same problem. It was working so something changed
either on Google or E-rice.
How does a robot.txt file timeout? Google is saying that. I never changed anything with my sitemap or robot.txt file when I made the change to e-rice.
URL timeout: robots.txt timeout
Yeah, I have not changed anything either and I seem to be getting the
same error. I would suspect a problem at Google. Be interesting to
see what Alan at E-Rice says about it.
Mike
Another reference point, Carterlake who started the thread is on e-rice too.
is your sitemap validating, or you just getting a robots error?
Mark, just a side comment, have you disallowed the log and xxx in your robot.txt (the one I can see doesn’t show that)?
Disallow: /log
Disallow: /xxx
No…I didnt do that. Will add that now.
I resubmitted my sitemap to google after fixing the robots.txt file and i just got the error again saying the robots file is timing out. Im starting to think its on googles end, least i hope so.
Hmmm http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35164 do you have to tell them the url of robots.txt in the setup ?
In the webmaster tools section, you can have google Analyze your robots file.
URL results URL Googlebot Googlebot-Mobile
http://www.snoqualmieweather.com/robots.txt Allowed Allowed
URL results URL Googlebot Googlebot-Mobile
http://www.snoqualmieweather.com Allowed Allowed
So the timing out thing is odd, since there results are showing they can access it.
That is strange, you would think that if it was a global problem with google that there would be a lot of people posting on the internet, but google :roll: doesn’t find that :?
Have you looked in your error log on e-rice?
Nothing really stands out in the log to me.
this is interesting…
Line 0 : http://www.snoqualmieweather.com/robots.txt robots.txt file does not appear to be valid
There is no Line 0…lol
Try lower case A
User-agent: