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APP platform getting google search console 5xx error, but site is available

Hi,

I have a site hosted on digital ocean APP platform, website is available but if I want to index it by google it fails to index it due to a 5xx error. I am using google search console. Since the site is up, only thing that I can think of is DNS issues, does anybody know what this could be?

I am using laravel, inertia ssr and vuejs.

My robots.txt looks like this and it is available by other crawlers.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /*.png$
Disallow: /*.svg$
Disallow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://mysite/sitemap.xml

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Bobby Iliev
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• March 10, 2023

Hi there,

I could suggest a couple of things:

  • Check your App platform logs and look for any 500 errors in there that might be causing the problem.
  • As it is a 500 error it is unlikely to be a DNS issue I believe, have you made any DNS changes recently?
  • Does Google report 5xx errors on all pages or only on specific ones?
  • Try running a curl with providing the Google bot as the agent, that way you will verify if the error is caused by the user agent:
curl -IL -H 'User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)' https://domain.com

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby