Unable to reach googlewebmasterstools.html file using DNS name, but able to access via IPADDRESS

Question

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I am trying to get webmastertools to verify my ownership on my domain. www.swipetelecom.com.

Issue : When I try to reach the googlewebmastertools.html file, using http://www.swipetelecom.com/googlewebmasterstools.html. I get a 404

Not Found

The requested URL /googlewebmasterstools.html was not found on this server.

But : I am able to reach the googlewebmasterstools.html file using the 1.2.3.4/wordpress/googlemastertools.html.

I am using a local domain manager (not godaddy). I have setup Frame Forwarding at the domain manager. Does it have something to do with this ?

This is my .htaccess (in my /var/www/html/wordpress folder), does it have anything to do with this ?

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

My wordpress folder and all their contents are owned by www-data.

What am I missing here ?

And yes, I have tried all other methods of verification, but none of them work too. This is the most logical question I could ask here.

Answer 1

Frames will not do what you are trying to achieve. You are iframing content from another server/ip (server 2) which is completely separate from the server/ip (server 1) hosting your index page with the frame on it. So since you have your Google verification file on server 2 you will be unable to call that path from server 1 since nothing is actually located there.

I would recommend making /wordpress/ the web root for server 2 then just changing your A record for swipetelecom.com to 54.169.149.94 from 180.149.240.169.

Alternatively you could just upload your Google verification file to server 1 (180.149.240.169).