: "Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue" In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access

@Karen161

Posted in: #Googlebot #GoogleSearchConsole #RobotsTxt

In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access your site".

Under the Current Status it has:


DNS - SUCCESS
Server Connectivity - FAIL
Robots.txt Fetch - SUCCESS


However, if I "Fetch as Google" the fetch status returns successful. This is a Joomla site so my robots.txt is the default Joomla one which shouldn't cause any problems:

# If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at
# e.g. example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be
# moved to the site root at e.g. example.com/robots.txt # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed
# path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder
# MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# www.robotstxt.org/orig.html #
# For syntax checking, see:
# www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html
User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /dev/


Any help with how to diagnose the problem? I'm not sure why this has suddenly cropped up for no apparent reason.

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