I’m hosting a MediaWiki site on InfinityFree (domain: pygly.ct.ws), and I’ve encountered an issue where Bingbot (and likely other crawlers) cannot access my site’s content due to a JavaScript redirect. This is preventing my site from being indexed properly, and my Sitemap shows “0 URLs discovered” i…

[image] Ensuring only web browsers can access your website Websites and PHP InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. Infinit…

Did it happen in the verification process? I do not know anything about Bingbot, but you can try the instructions stated in this article: [image] How to verify your website in Google Search Console Websites and PHP Google Search Console is a useful tool to help…

[image] Kerywek: Sitemap shows “0 URLs discovered” in Bing Webmaster Tools. I have heard that the crawlers from the webmaster tools do not support JavaScript and get blocked by the security system @JavesPotato mentioned. However, the main Bing crawler does support JavaScript, so there is a po…

Google and bings web crawlers do work, and can index your website. However, the validation checkers, site map checks, they don’t. But then Bing goes to actually index your site, it will work. You can’t emulate Bing using cURL they way you tried because the crawler does more then just send a specifi…

Bingbot Unable to Crawl My MediaWiki Site Due to JavaScript Redirect - Need Help Disabling It

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JavesPotato March 2, 2025, 1:40pm 3

Did it happen in the verification process? I do not know anything about Bingbot, but you can try the instructions stated in this article: