Error 5XX Server

[Raph]

Hello, I have a huge issu. All my unit are in no index and google see them at error 5XXX server. Or it should be respond in 401 (no authorization to access the document) or in 410 with a noindex Please how I can fix it ? It destroys my SEO so please thank you to look a it.

[Raph]

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[Anshuman Sahu]

Well units in wplms are not accessible as they contain paid content . Exposing them will make the visitors see the paid content for free .

[Raph]

Yes I understand that, I excluded them from the search, by not referencing them. They are not in the index either, but google still sees them in error 5XXX. I asked the google develloper, and normally this page should have a 401 or 410 code. How do I fix this? Thank you. Because it harms my SEO.

[Anshuman Sahu]

Well if its not in indexing then how the google has indexed it? I guess it might take some time for google to remove indexes .

[Raph]

Is not for the indexing but for a incorrect code. It says error server, but is not. Is just a private document. So How I can fix it ?

[Anshuman Sahu]

Well this should be handled with the help of robots.txt file by adding restriction to /unit url prefix . Neither the bots will crawl this prefix nor this error will show . in robots.txt you can add this :

User-agent: *
Disallow: /unit

[Raph]

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[Anshuman Sahu]

yes but where is this line :

User-agent: *
Disallow: /unit

which prevents units to be crawled in first place by search engines . there wont be any issues with your seo then . Units are restricted with Page status 500 , we are using wordpress wp_die function to restrict the units and it sends 500 status code .

[Raph]

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[Anshuman Sahu]

please try adding this given code in your wplms-customizer.php file in wplms customizer plugin :

add_action('init',function(){
	if(class_exists('WPLMS_Actions')){
		$ac = WPLMS_Actions::init();
		remove_action(	'template_redirect',array($ac,'vibe_check_access_check'),11);
	}

	add_action(	'template_redirect','vibe_check_access_check22',11);
});

function vibe_check_access_check22(){
	if(!is_singular(array('unit','question')))
	      return;

    $flag=0;
    global $post;

	$free=get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'vibe_free',true);
		if(vibe_validate($free) || (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && is_user_logged_in())){
        	$flag=0;
        	return;
    }else
    	$flag = 1;

    if(current_user_can('edit_posts')){
        $flag=0;
        $instructor_privacy = vibe_get_option('instructor_content_privacy');
        $user_id=get_current_user_id();
        if(isset($instructor_privacy) && $instructor_privacy && !current_user_can('manage_options')){
            if($user_id != $post->post_author)
              $flag=1;
        }
    }

    if($post->post_type == 'unit'){
      	$post_type = __('UNITS','vibe');
    }else if($post->post_type == 'question'){
      	$post_type = __('QUESTIONS','vibe');
    }

    $message = sprintf(__('DIRECT ACCESS TO %s IS NOT ALLOWED','vibe'),$post_type);
    $flag = apply_filters('wplms_direct_access_to'.$post->post_type,$flag,$post);
    if($flag){
        wp_die($message,$message,array('back_link'=>true,'response'=>400));
    }
}

[Raph]

Will the response code for google bots be 400? I need them to answer 401? How can I test the code to see if it works? Thank you

[Anshuman Sahu]

for response code 401 please change this line : wp_die($message,$message,array('back_link'=>true,'response'=>400)); to :

        wp_die($message,$message,array('back_link'=>true,'response'=>401));

To test this you can simply access a not free unit as a visitor (non logged in user ) . You can see status code in chrome developer tools : https://mkyong.com/computer-tips/how-to-view-http-headers-in-google-chrome/

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