Help with XHTML Validation Error: 500 Badhost Name

  • Hi everyone,

    I’m new to WP, and am having a really hard time.

    My blog, https://www.nintendopulse.com displays fine on IE7, but most of the time it wont display at all on Firefox or Opera.

    I think this may have something to do with my XHTML Validation coming up with some errors. I’m hoping someone will provide some steps on how to fix it.

    When using the Validator tool that comes with WP, I get the following error…

    I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve <https://nintendopulse.com/&gt;:

    500 Can’t connect to nintendopulse.com:80 (Bad hostname ‘nintendopulse.com’)

    If you made recent changes to your domain name (DNS) configuration, you may also want to check that your domain records are correct, or ask your hosting company to do so.

    I checked my domain, and I have the correct “A” Host settings in place for my Bluehost server. The only other thing I could think of that might be messing with this are the CNAME settings, which I messed with when I used Blogger for a short time (and I don’t have a clue how CNAMES work). My registrar is godaddy if that helps.

    Please, please…if someone could suggest a fix, I would greatly appreciate it. Please provide responses in simple terms as I’m new at this.

    Thanks you guys!

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  • It’s looking at two different hosts:

    Link

    You have 2 pairs of nameservers assign and they are conflicting. Best bet would be to get with godadddy and remove the incorrect pair.

    Thread Starter cebarbera

    (@cebarbera)

    Thanks for the reply.

    I followed the link you provided. much appreciated. I see there are a few errors listed. Is my main problem the following error?

    ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are:
    ns1.bluehost.com.
    ns2.bluehost.com.

    If so, those are the nameservers that my host requires. There are two other nameservers that were the defualt godaddy ones. should i delete those? Maybe that’s the problem…

    Any additional help is really appreciated.

    Thread Starter cebarbera

    (@cebarbera)

    update:

    looks like that did the trick. at least i hope so anyway. deleated the 2 default godaddy nameservers leaving only the bluehost ones an the DNS report has come back with fewer error than before.

    check it out.

    thank you drmike for stepping in and helping me with a very frustrating but ultimately simple issue. huge thanks!

    Thread Starter cebarbera

    (@cebarbera)

    weird… still getting the xhtml error in the validator. the same one from the beginning….

    it this because i need to wait for DNS to propogate?

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