Netinlet » google http://netinlet.com doug's mostly ignored place on the web Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:50:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Apps – html verify takes a long time http://netinlet.com/article/2007/03/27/google-apps-html-verify-takes-a-long-time/ http://netinlet.com/article/2007/03/27/google-apps-html-verify-takes-a-long-time/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:35:00 +0000 doug http://netinlet.com/?p=122 I recently signed up the netinlet.com domain and a friends work domain for the Google Apps

You have to verify ownership of the domain to get the ball rolling. They allow you to either upload a unique html page to the domain or add a cname entry which points to google.com. I chose the former because it was simple and easy to do.

Google tells you up to 48 hours before the account is active. Well, 48 hours came and went. Then a whole week came and went and I heard nothing. Searches for why this was taking so long did not turn up much.

I finally stumbled upon some http log entries which show google was trying to verify. The entries looked like this:

216.239.36.136 – - [27/Mar/2007:22:58:25 +0000] “GET /googlehostedservice.html HTTP/1.0” 412 258 “-” “Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1”

Look, a clue! Notice the 412 error code.

After some more hunting, it turns out that the verification process is triggering Apache mod_security. Luckily, the fix is simple.

If you don’t already have one, create a .htaccess file in you webserver root directory. In this file put

SecFilterEngine Off

My host is textdrive and I found a textdrive specific fix here but this fix should apply to almost everybody who is getting 412 error codes in their log files.

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One good thing did come out of this, finding the new and improved Google Reader A while back, I had imported all my NetNewsWire subscriptions into it. I never used it much because the interface was too primitive. So, wanting my rss feeds Friday night, I gave it a try again.

Whoa! Apparently they just updated the UI that day. The interface is very usable. Once they fix a couple of kinks, like occasionaly not iterating to the next unread message, I may be able to replace NetNewsWire. I’m especially happy because I can use it at work on my linux box too. The Google Reader developers made me a very happy camper.

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