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    • mvag
      mvag last edited by

      Hi Guys,

      Just tried to Create a Campaign in the form of: www.example.tv and I get the following message:

      Oops.. This does not appear to be a valid URL.

      any idea what's next !?

      [Edited to remove NSFW URL]

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

        I'm sure that one of the MOZ guys will be along to answer this soon, but in the meantime, do you need to be entering a complete URL with http:// ? Do you have other live campaigns that are working OK?

        Sorry I can't be of more help, as I don't sub to the full packages.

        -Andy

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        • RobertFisher
          RobertFisher last edited by

          Check if you are tracking root domain or sub-domain.

          If you are tracking the root domain and stating you want to track all traffic at any subdomain, you do not want the www in the url. 
          For example on our site we have dev sites that are subdomains. We do not want them tracked. so we have ours set as www. ourcompany .net

          If you want to track anything on the domain, take off the www and I think it will work for you.

          Best, 
          Robert

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          • mvag
            mvag last edited by

            Hi Everyone,

            The solution is simple and I am writing it down for everyone who will have the same problem in the future.

            1. since it is using curl the best solution is to run the command and see watch the results. it will give a good idea about the problem.

            2. make sure that you have 301 message and not 30X temporary messages for those who do redirect upon location or language.

            3. in my case the problem was the ssl certificate was missing the intermediate.crt. so that new browser didn't had no problem with handing the certificate, curl is an "old" browser and had problem with verify the certificate. better using tools to verify the ssl certificate was installed correctly. each issuer has it's own site to test the certificate installation.

            good luck to all the guys that will run intto that problem in the future. I hope my respond will help you get that stage.

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