Your site may not be ready for Site Kit

Thanks for the tips. I will clean up a few icon images that are being served http rather than https and then I’ll check using a couple of different devices in incognito troubleshooting mode. I’ll report the results later today.

I manually fixed any references to http in image resources, Javascript includes, etc, in my theme’s PHP and CSS. I installed a mixed-content-fixing plug-in. I do have a nice lock icon, but I had that before.

I used https://www.jitbit.com/sslcheck/ to find:
SSL Issues:
https://danforthgreens.ca/category/principles/non-violence/
https://danforthgreens.ca/category/news/
https://danforthgreens.ca/category/videos/
https://danforthgreens.ca/category/green-paperclip/page/2/
https://danforthgreens.ca/category/portlands-energy-centre/page/2/
https://danforthgreens.ca/further-action-against-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/

I’ll look at these next. Can this really be the source of the trouble?

A great many screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/9RQlxTS

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.

https://www.jitbit.com/sslcheck/ finds no mixed content now, but doesn’t scan every page.

https://www.missingpadlock.com/ is scanning now.

Incognito troubleshooting mode Site Kit reset still has the same result.

I believe all mixed content issues are resolved. Do you have any indication otherwise?

My problems remain. Thanks!

Tried again on another device as well.

Appreciate the updates! All looks good regarding your changes, I don’t see any mixed content related issues now on the URLs I checked.

I believe all mixed content issues are resolved. Do you have any indication otherwise?

Nothing stands out from inspecting the details which you’ve kindly shared. If however you could share any browser console errors you see on the same screen where this error occurs and share your current hosting provider this may provide further insights.

Other than sharing your console errors and current host rather than asking you to perform additional troubleshooting checks I’ll check your site references on the Site Kit service and report back to you here once I have an update. Unfortunately I can’t check myself so it may take a day or two. That way we can confirm there is nothing unusual in relation to your site records, and you won’t have to go through so many troubleshooting efforts which you’ve kindly undertaken so far. I’m confident however we will determine the cause!

I’ll let you know as soon as I have an update. Thank you!

@charliehamu We’ve now reset your site on the Site Kit service. Can you attempt setup once more and inform me if you encounter the same error as previously encountered?

1. Browser console errors.

Lots of good stuff (in this case from non-incognito, non-troubleshooting mode):

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=googlesitekit-dashboard&notification=reset_success' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/core/site/data/notifications/?_locale=user'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:GET datapoint:notifications type:core identifier:site error:"You are probably offline."
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1
admin.php:1 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=googlesitekit-dashboard&notification=reset_success' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/modules/search-console/data/searchanalytics/?dimensions=date&startDate=2021-07-16&endDate=2021-09-09&_locale=user'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:GET datapoint:searchanalytics type:modules identifier:search-console error:"You are probably offline."
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1
admin.php:1 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=googlesitekit-dashboard&notification=reset_success' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/modules/search-console/data/searchanalytics/?startDate=2021-08-13&endDate=2021-09-09&dimensions=query&limit=10&_locale=user'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:GET datapoint:searchanalytics type:modules identifier:search-console error:"You are probably offline."
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1
admin.php:1 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=googlesitekit-dashboard&notification=reset_success' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/core/user/data/survey-trigger/?_locale=user'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:POST datapoint:survey-trigger type:core identifier:user error:"You are probably offline."
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1

2. Hosting provider:

DreamHost shared server with WordPress self-insalled 15 years ago and auto-updated since.

Wait! I recall noting a few weeks ago, in my danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-config.php:
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql.hamufamu.org'); // TODO: move this! cdhh

HamuFamu.org is also DreamHost, in an adjoining directory. But obviously a different domain and may have its own SSL issues. But again, I want to mention that when I changed my home URL to match my WordPress directory URL, the problem went away.

3. Retry after reset on service side:

Quite new results in one respect. When I tried to connect after a reset in incognito troubleshooting mode, I got a bad parameter error that prevented me from completing, shown here: https://imgur.com/a/ESKRX6y

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.

Not quite believing that Google Site Kit itself was the original source of mixed content, I uninstalled the on-the-fly http/httos fixer (keeping whatever permanent fixes it had made), uninstalled Site Kit complete (verified that the directory was gone) reinstalled, and immediately got these errors on the widgets page itself:

Visible at the top of the widgets page:

Congratulations, the Site Kit plugin is now activated.
Your site may not be ready for Site Kit
Looks like this may be a staging environment. If so, you’ll need to install a helper plugin and verify your production site in Search Console

Console errors for that page:

Mixed Content: The page at ‘https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s’ was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource ‘https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/core/site/data/health-checks/?_locale=user’. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:GET datapoint:health-checks type:core identifier:site error:”You are probably offline.”
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1
plugins.php:1 Mixed Content: The page at ‘https://danforthgreens.ca/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s’ was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource ‘https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/core/site/data/developer-plugin/?_locale=user’. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1 Google Site Kit API Error method:GET datapoint:developer-plugin type:core identifier:site error:”You are probably offline.”
(anonymous) @ googlesitekit-api.8864d1fded0aab37a78b.js:1

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.

Reinstalled WordPress 5.8.1.

Still getting the same:

Your site may not be ready…

Still getting the quite new:

Welcome to Site Kit! Let’s get you set up
invalid parameter: ‘site_id’

You can get this error, too, at this URL:

https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/site-management/setup/?scope=openid%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fuserinfo.profile%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fuserinfo.email%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fsiteverification%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fwebmasters&supports=credentials_retrieval%20short_verification_token%20user_input_flow%20file_verification&nonce=b02ba1172e&site_id=X7roq2iH6tuewoc8SP2wwC-VVUBFnzkqa2yozTDJosYyk.apps.sitekit.withgoogle.com&user_roles=administrator&application_name=wordpress%2Fgoogle-site-kit%2F1.40.0&hl=en_US

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.

Many thanks for sharing your findings. While there shouldn’t be any issue with your WordPress database on a different domain it may be possible there is something at host level impacting setup. Are you able to setup a new clean WordPress install and attempt setup from there to check? You can use a subdomain or another domain you may have.

You may also wish to check for any firewall or host level security feature.

Let me know how you get on with a clean WordPress install anyway.

1. I will try a clean WordPress install on a different domain.

2. But in the meanwhile, I’m not sure what you reset on your side (I didn’t even know there was a “your side”), but that’s led to the site_id problem preventing connection entirely. What’s that all about?

3. And insecure resource on my widgets page https://danforthgreens.ca/wp-json/google-site-kit/v1/core/site/data/developer-plugin/?_locale=user is surely not related to the location of the MySQL database. (It’s not in the top-level code if I view source, so I guess its buried in included JavaScript somewhere.) Where is that coming from?

1. Using another WordPress site on the same DreamHost shared hosting plan, Site Kit installed without problems. No data to show yet, but no complaints about not being ready and no complaints about being offline. Note that this was a DreamHost one-button install of “DreamPress” as I recall, done earlier this year. And note that Site URL and WordPress URL match (both root). And note that when I made the two match for my site (both /wordpress/ subdirectory) it also worked … but messed up the URLs and didn’t actually have data to show yet.

2. [site_id above] ?

3. [console errors above] ?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by CharlieHamu.

1. Data now shows.

2. ?

3. ?

Thanks for the update. In relation to the site reset on our site this was from the Site Kit service, used to display data from the various connected Google services to your Site Kit dashboard.

If Site Kit is working as expected from another site on the same hosting platform the next step may be to check how you’ve setup any https redirect for the non connected site.

I’m still encountering some non secure resources when checking your site, as you’ve also reported. One example is on your volunteer page specifically, there are various console errors which include the “you are probably offline” and mixed content errors (recording). The offline notice references a possible Contact Form 7 related issue. From checks on their own forums there are also references to server related issues. From even further checks this seems evident based on comments on the Gutenberg GitHub repository.

In relation to the site_id error I’m happy to discuss this with the team. Would it be possible for you to share a screen recording of your setup experience, while keeping your Chrome developer tools open, displaying any console errors? It may be a case that you need to review your hosting configurations for this site, along with how you’ve implement a redirect to https.

You can use a service such as recordit or Loom to record a screenshot, while sharing using our escalations form if you prefer to share privately.