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Thanks so much! You were spot on. The site_start was set to a value that meant nothing. I’ve now set it to the page id of the home page and it’s all smiles here.

I appreciate your quick response - have a great day ]]> window077 Aug 31, 2010, 03:18 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/36152/headers-for-home-page-being-sent-as-404-when-page-displays-correctly#dis-post-203325 https://forums.modx.com/thread/36152/headers-for-home-page-being-sent-as-404-when-page-displays-correctly#dis-post-203324 sottwell Aug 31, 2010, 01:04 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/36152/headers-for-home-page-being-sent-as-404-when-page-displays-correctly#dis-post-203324 https://forums.modx.com/thread/36152/headers-for-home-page-being-sent-as-404-when-page-displays-correctly#dis-post-203323
I’m working on an existing site and went to add the Google verification META tag to link the site to Webmaster Tools.

It came up with the message: Verification failed. Your site’s home page returns a status of 404 (Not found) instead of 200 (OK).

I then went to an independant site to check the headers to make sure it wasn’t Google (http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers) and it also said 404. Other pages come up as 200, but the URL itself comes up 404.

I removed the .htaccess file to see if that would help, but still nothing. I also disabled ’friendly URLs’ to see if that would help, but also nothing.

Can anyone help me please - I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out with no luck

Thanks in advance!]]> window077 Aug 30, 2010, 08:19 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/36152/headers-for-home-page-being-sent-as-404-when-page-displays-correctly#dis-post-203323