Domain Verification Failed

You do not need to use Browser-Based Authentication (BBAuth) with Placemaker. Just select "Generic" for the authentication method when you register your application. If you plan to use other Yahoo! web services that require BBAuth, you can verify your domain from the YDN projects page (https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/projects) after you've signed in. Be sure to copy the required text to your test file before clicking the "Check Domain" button. I noticed that your test file was empty, which may be the reason your verification process failed.

Eddie Babcock
Yahoo! Geo Technologies

Hi Eddie,

thanks for your help. However it still does not work :-(

I tried 2 different things now:

1) registering a new application - however i did not get to any point where i could choose "generic" for an autehntication method. I was able to complete the first step, but the second step was always that one here: "https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/dashboard/verifyDomain.html" It says "create an empty file" and put it in root dir of the server, i did that, but authentication failed. then i copyied the text of the file name to the file itself (http://www.flirtalike.com/otGVnepBZBoCQ2eMNg6gbg--.html), but it still fails - it always says

"Domain Verification Failed

We had trouble fetching the file from your server. Please make sure it's accessible. You might want to monitor your access logs to make sure our request is making it there."

2) I tried to verify the domain from the sidebar of https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/projects like you suggested - but that caused the same problem, no matter if the file was empty or not.

I don't know, maybe i am heading in the complete wrong direction? The general thing i want to do is to use the placemaker API for our mobile website to translate ZIP codes to geocodes on a regular base (like max 1000 requests per day, most of the times it will be like 300-500). We do not need to access any private user data from yahoo users. The usecase goes as follows:

1) users sing up for a free account on flirtalike.com (new credentials, no oauth at the moment)
2) they put their zip code in their profile
3) an internal process on our server shall be started after the zip code has been entered by the user and translate that zip code to geo data and save it in our DB

thats all for the moment. Lateron we plan to implement more stuff like oauth, etc...

Could you try to find the right way for me to implement the desired fucntionality?

thanks alot !!
Best,
Georg

+3!

Regardless of where the process is started (e.g., <https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/dashboard/createKey.html>), the result is the same; further, there is no mention of contents of the file, only that it be an empty file.

kind regards/ldv

Verify your domain

To verify that you control the domain where your application will be located, you’ll need to create an empty file in the root directory of your domain.
You may skip this step and your application will still work, but your users will be informed that your domain is not trusted by Yahoo!.

Step 1: Create an Empty Verification File

File Name:

redacted--.html

Step 2: Upload Verification File

Server to Verify:

redacted.tld

Url to check:

http://redacted.tld/redacted--.html

Place the file you created in step 1 at the document root of this server.

Update: This error hapens against domain.us (hosted at godaddy.com) and does not happen at domain.net (hosted locally in our facilities).

kind regards/ldv

Oops! godaddy.com server logs are not available on a contemporaneous basis, but are available at the end of a daily sweep :(