I just moved my site to DigitalOcean from a shared server. The site is working fine, but Google is having a hard time crawling it. I tried to do Fetch as Google but on every page, I get an ‘Unreachable’ error. Do I need to do something to the server to help google see my page?
My site is a Laravel based site, using a LAMP server on Ubuntu 14.04.
As it shows in the access log, Google gets a 500 Internal Server Error as a response. Check your error logs.
Thanks for replying.
The apache2 error log shows no error after a google bot attempt.
Then check your error reporting settings in php.ini and your ErrorLog configuration on Apache.
Im pretty new at all this. What should I be looking at/changing?
Ive tried to request my header info from quite a few automatic header request/seo tools and they are all getting 500s too. The site works fine otherwise.... Im really confused.
Solved. Had a look at my Laravel logs and found a php error. Fixed that and its working smoothly now.
Thanks for your input, Woet!
Heres the most recent attempt from a google bot in the access log:
“GET / HTTP/1.1” 500 4753 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”