McAffee SiteAdvisor will not validate WordPress Sites

  • I’ve spent hours researching this. Please do not refer me to links that I have already read and tried. I also have a request submitted to McAfee Support Forum: (McAfee Link)

    Please, does anyone has any new suggestions or Ideas.

    The McAffee Site Advisor does not recognize 404 HTTP headers when there is a WordPress installation.

    FACTS:
    – I am able to get websites WITHOUT WP verified
    – Websites with WP get the following McAfee error “It appears that the Web site mydomain.com (or https://www.scotts2012gear) is returning an HTTP 2xx or 3xx status response code in the header of 404 pages. “
    – These WP web sites all have proper 404 pages, ie.

    WHAT I HAVE TRIED:
    – I tried renaming .htaccess to .htaccessold and re-submitting (failed)
    – I tried the suggestions from this link (404 pages)
    I added the following to my header.php but they did not work :
    <?php header(“HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found”); ?>
    <?php header(“Status: 404 Not Found”); ?>
    <?php ob_start(); ?>

    – Downloaded CURL and checked the results:
    C:\CURL>curl -s-D – -o /dev/null https://www.scotts2012gear.com/no-one-here.html

    The CURL results clearly show that a 404 NotFound is returned.

    HTTP/1.1 404 NotFound
    Date: Thu, 16 Jun2011 02:56:05 GMT
    Server: Apache
    X-Powered-By:PHP/5.2.17
    X-Pingback: https://www.scotts2012gear.com/xmlrpc.php
    Expires: Wed, 11 Jan1984 05:00:00 GMT
    Cache-Control:no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
    Pragma: no-cache
    Last-Modified: Thu,16 Jun 2011 02:56:06 GMT
    Vary:Accept-Encoding
    Transfer-Encoding:chunked
    Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8

    Sincerely,
    B.Rgds,
    Scott

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  • Please do not refer me to links that I have already read and tried.

    How would we know what you have read or tried?

    Did you use this to check your site, https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/domain/writeComments?firstTry=1&section=domainSuggestion

    It validates my wp sites with no problems.

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    Hmmm, well, I clearly listed what I have tried under the heading “WHAT I HAVE TRIED”.

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    I have already tried….

    WHAT I HAVE TRIED:
    – I tried renaming .htaccess to .htaccessold and re-submitting (failed)
    – I tried the suggestions from this link (404 pages)
    I added the following to my header.php but they did not work :
    <?php header(“HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found”); ?>
    <?php header(“Status: 404 Not Found”); ?>
    <?php ob_start(); ?>

    – Downloaded CURL and checked the results:
    C:\CURL>curl -s-D – -o /dev/null https://www.scotts2012gear.com/no-one-here.html

    The CURL results clearly show that a 404 NotFound is returned.

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    I tried a Fresh install of WordPress 3.1.3 (ScottIdeas) and I’m getting the same error from McAfee Site Advisor. I have absolutely no plugins installed. I deleted “Hello Dolly” and “Askimet”

    I have already submitted a request to McAfee. I’m hoping someone else may have any insight into this bug.

    Sincerely,
    B.Rgds,
    Scott

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    I’m using the default Theme “Twenty Ten 1.2”.

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    I finally got it to work. here is what worked for me.

    – Deactivate all Plugins
    – Use the default theme TwentyTen
    – rename the .htaccess to .htaccessold
    – Go Back to McAfee SiteAdvisor and click “Request Verification File”
    You should now see the McAfee Validation File name.
    – Create the file and upload to your host in the root directory
    – Go Back to McAfee SiteAdvisor and click the “Verify” Button
    – rename the .htaccessold to .htaccess

    Done. ??

    THANK YOU scotte68 — the .htaccess rename trick worked for me, and saved me hours of frustration.

    Thread Starter scotte68

    (@scotte68)

    kstadden,

    Glad to help. If you ever have a sub-domain, there is another fix for that. I had to rename the top level htaccess and the sub-level htaccess. Took me many hours to figure out the sub-domain fix. :d

    B.Rgds,
    Scott
    MaricopaMinutes

    Thanks. This worked for me too. Great Help!

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