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What is the domain name?
ps2nostalgia.win
Have you searched for an answer?
yep
Please share your search results url:
When you tested your domain, what were the results?
I don’t understand this question.
Describe the issue you are having:
I’m trying to request indexing with Google’s URL Inspection tool and each time I do, it runs a live test on the url and it fails. Looking at the logs I see that i’m returning 405 but it is not in my code. It seems like one of cloudflare’s security layers is doing this on my behalf. I tried with postman too because i thought it may have to do with user agents. Postman requests also receive 405s even if I set the user-agent to match my browser requests.
For SEO, google URL inspection tool says “Failed: Blocked due to other 4xx issue”
What error message or number are you receiving?
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
- Created a Skip rule in my websites Security/WAF Custom Rules section. I added the key GoogleBot user-agent values and postman’s user-agent value. I can see the rule getting picked up in the list of Firewall Events for postman requests and the Skip occurs but the request still responds with a 405. Googlebot requests don’t even get caught by this rule when I look at Firewall Events.
- Googling around
- reading cloudflare community responses
Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?
I never hosted it before adding it to Cloudflare
What are the steps to reproduce the error:
- try hitting my website with postman… just a simple GET request to the root domain
Have you tried from another browser and/or incognito mode?
yep
Please attach a screenshot of the error:
I have more images but i’m only allowed to post one because i’m a new user.
