Web Directories

**sylwester** · 05-17-2008, 06:18 PM

Hi all,

I have problem when trying to add a link to directories.
It says "The URL could not be validated. Either the page does not exist or the server cound not be contacted."

The website is live and I get this error after changed a webhost.

Sylwester

**chrishirst** · 05-18-2008, 09:22 AM

If the DNS servers used by the directory had not updated to the new host IP it would get a HTTP error. DNS can take up to 48 hours to propogate, though is often less than 4 hours.

**sylwester** · 05-18-2008, 09:30 AM

Thanks Chris. So it seems I have to wait and check out soon.

**sylwester** · 05-18-2008, 10:52 AM

I have checked, it is 1 week when I switched to new hosting. Is it too long for DNS?

**sylwester** · 05-18-2008, 06:26 PM

I do some research. Server has an error bad response header - HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error . That's problem.

**chrishirst** · 05-19-2008, 04:10 AM

500 errors are coding errors rather than a server error.

**sylwester** · 05-19-2008, 05:38 AM

I have no errors, here is url :http://www.notebookspot.com/

**chrishirst** · 05-19-2008, 07:11 AM

maybe not with a browser but with webbug;

Quote:

HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:08:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.5
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=8fac5f36597e3517f01ae65bfc79e770; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

**sylwester** · 05-19-2008, 07:27 AM

webbug, you mean a 1×1 gif ?

**chrishirst** · 05-19-2008, 08:34 AM

Naah!

WebBug

**sylwester** · 05-19-2008, 10:52 AM

How to fix it?

**meanne2007** · 05-19-2008, 05:43 PM

I also experience that, i just close the site and find some web directories again

**chrishirst** · 05-20-2008, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sylwester

How to fix it?

No idea!

It's your site, you can see the code.

but I'd suggest getting rid of the custom 500 error page that is probably pointing to the home page, disabling cookies/session in your browser and finding out what the error actually is.

**sylwester** · 05-21-2008, 07:53 AM

Problem fixed.
meanne2007 maybe James will help you too.