Google Search Console Showing Server Error (5xx) on My Website

Website URL

https://tamizhaayvan.42web.io/

Error Message

Hello InfinityFree Support Team,

I am facing a server error issue with my website.

Website URL: https://tamizhaayvan.42web.io/

Server IP: 185.27.134.140

My website opens normally in my browser. However, Google Search Console shows the following error:

  • Page cannot be indexed: Server error (5xx)
  • Page fetch: Failed: Server error (5xx)

This error is appearing on my homepage as well as individual blog posts.

I have checked the Blocked IPs section, and no IP addresses are blocked.

Could you please check your server logs and investigate why Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool is receiving a 5xx response?

Please also check whether Googlebot or Google Inspection Tool requests are being blocked or experiencing server errors.

I would appreciate your help in resolving this issue.

Thank you.

Other Information

Additional details:

  1. My website is hosted on InfinityFree free hosting.
  2. The website was created recently, and it is working normally when I access it through my browser.
  3. However, Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Live Test consistently reports a Server Error (5xx).
  4. The issue affects the homepage and multiple individual blog posts.
  5. I have not intentionally blocked Googlebot, and the Blocked IPs section shows no blocked IP addresses.

Affected URLs:

Homepage: https://tamizhaayvan.42web.io/

Blog post: https://tamizhaayvan.42web.io/tnpsc-group-4-recruitment-2026/

Please investigate the server-side issue and let me know if any hosting configuration or server-side fix is required.

I can provide Google Search Console screenshots if needed.

Thank you.

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Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look.

The most likely explanation is that Search Console’s live test can’t get past our browser security check, and that the test doesn’t reflect what the real Google crawler sees. I found this in the article below:

All free hosting accounts have a security system that only lets through visitors that can run JavaScript and accept cookies. The article lists “Search engine testing tools, like Google Search Console’s live test” as something that doesn’t work, and adds “the Google crawler itself is exempt”. It also says the check can’t be turned off or excluded for one user agent or IP address. So there’s nothing to whitelist, and the Blocked IPs section isn’t involved.

I’m not certain this is what you’re seeing, because the article describes the blocked response as usually a 403 or a short HTML page, not a 5xx. What would settle it is whether the 5xx only shows up in the Live Test, or also in the normal indexed report. Do the “Page indexing” report, or the crawl info on the non-live version of the URL Inspection result, show a server error from a real Googlebot crawl? If they do, please say so and give the date of the last crawl.

Thank you for your response.

I understand that InfinityFree uses a browser security system.

However, Google Search Console URL Inspection Live Test specifically shows:

  • Page cannot be indexed: Server error (5xx)

  • Page fetch: Failed: Server error (5xx)

This issue occurs on my homepage and individual blog posts.

Could you please confirm whether Googlebot and Google’s URL Inspection Tool are affected by the InfinityFree security system?

Is there any possible way to allow Googlebot to access my website without triggering this security check?

Please let me know if this is an expected limitation of free hosting.

Thank you for your help.

The Google search console crawlers are blocked but their normal crawler for general site indexing isnt

As dan3008 said, the google search indexing crawler isn’t blocked, but the search console crawlers are.