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Google 405 Errors with wp-comments-post.php

October 10th, 2007
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I have been tracking the web crawl diagnostics in Google webmaster tools for quite some time, and over the last few weeks have been noticing a Google 405 Error with wp-comments-post.php file in my wordpress installation.

Web Crawl is a useful webmaster site diagnostic tool that lists URLs from your site that Googlebot had trouble crawling. Googlebot found this wordpress pages had a http error.
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/wp-comments-post.php

Google 405 error

Clicking on that link takes you to a blank page. I clicked the help ? and 405 Error means that “The method specified in the request is not allowed.”

Similarly while tracking the outgoing clicks via Mybloglog traffic statistics, I found that outgoing clicks were being redirected to these links also

Outgoing wordpress clicks

I failed to find where this link with the anchor text “Submit Comment” was located on my site. It seems to be somehow related to the commenting system on the blog. As far as I can tell, comments have been posting ok on the site (unless some of you have noticed a problem like blank pages or bad redirects).

I thought maybe I had tweaked the wordpress comments template and created a bug, so I replaced it with the default wordpress comments template to avoid such bugs. But the link is still getting more clicks. I ensured the latest file for wp-comments-post.php was correctly installed in Wordpress 2.3 too. I have also disabled the useful “Subscribe to Comments” wordpress plugin to check if that is conflicting in some way with my wordpress installation.

Have you encountered such an error with your wordpress installation? What do you suggest I do?

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19 Responses to “Google 405 Errors with wp-comments-post.php”

  1. Daniel says:

    It’s not an error. That page accepts POST variables only, and it will return a 405 error if no POST variables are sent (GET variables aren’t accepted by it either.) – As the Google Bot is unable to send a POST request to the page it will always result in a 405 error.

    You may be interested in using PHP and strpos for the string “GoogleBot” along with the header function to tell Google that it is a 200 OK page, not a 405 Error page.

    Dan.

  2. Daniel says:

    Look at the top of the file in PHP. Here is what you will see.

    ________

    if ( ‘POST’ != $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ) {
    header(’Allow: POST’);
    header(’HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed’);
    header(’Content-Type: text/plain’);
    exit;
    }

    _______

    Remove that to make Google stop classing it as a 405 error.

  3. Manas says:

    That error comes when there is an incompatible plugin. Did you upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 ?? If yes then there was an incompatible plugin.

  4. indyank says:

    test comment….

  5. BloggingTom says:

    wp-comments-post.php actually submits the commentform (form action). But since there are no post-variables submitted when Google directly requests that file, the webserver sends a 405 error. Other requests of that file are requests from spambots, which try to place a spam-comment on your blog.

  6. Daniel@ – But why is this a unique problem for me only. Everyone uses wordpress…

    Manas@ – I upgraded to WP2.3 and all plugins running claim to be compatible.

  7. Daniel says:

    It’s not unique to you.

    http://danltn.com/wp-comments-post.php

    View the Server headers on that page.

    Firefox: Right-click, View Info, headers.

    It’s the same for all. :)

  8. I experienced the same problem. But after I re-installed Windows – everything is ok.

  9. Daniel – Is this issue showing in Google webmaster tools for you too? It has happened recently for me in last few weeks only.

    Sally – I wonder how reinstalling Windows will correct a wordpress issue like this, which is hosted on a server.

  10. roflcopter @ “Sally, design guru”. That made me roflcopter into space. Honestly, the stupidity of some people.

  11. ed Burg says:

    Hi, I am puzzled.

    My wp comment page has extra

    No submit button no inputs.

    If I remove it it will not submit.
    What is the purpose of this extra form if it is not submitted yet it is necessary for the proper functionality.

  12. Dog Breeder says:

    I am also experiencing such a problem. But dont know how to solve. Will find out a easy and good way, I’ve sought experts help :(

  13. I think comment’ s php file is occured. you must analyse php code one more time but this is my idea what do you think about?

  14. hi
    i think this is similar problem.
    but cant able to integrate.

    i am also working in joomla

  15. geetha says:

    Ya, I too faced the same problem!

  16. swire says:

    I have the same problem
    no comment is submitted

  17. I am also experiencing such a problem. But dont know how to solve. Will find out a easy and good way, I’ve sought experts help

  18. fascinating and educational, but would participate in something more on this topic?

  19. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

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