[dokuwiki] sitemap-verification with google (dokuwiki never returns 404-errors)


After successfully creating a sitemap.xml I uploaded the sitemap-file to google-sitemap and now want to verify it. I created the google-verify-file in the root-folder but when trying to verify I get:

We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (OK) in the header.

-> http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/verify.html#verificationfileconfigerror


This means that google checks for the verify-file in the rootfolder, but does not read its content, but only checks the status, which is 200.
Then google checks if a not-existing-file returns 404 or 200 too. And therefore checks for http://mydomain.org/googlexxxxxxxxxxx_not_exists.html

and now this file returns status 200 as well, cause dokuwiki never returns a 404-error.

Anyone has found a solution for this already? Or do I need to dig deep into apache to return 404 for this specific file. (I tried a few RewriteRules in .htaccess but failed so far, cause only apache 2.1.x can do easy 404-Rules and I use 2.0.x here ...)

thnx
peter





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