First thing was that I was getting this error when I tried to use Google Analyticator for WordPress and tried to link it with my account get an error:
The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:
The site “http://mycoolwebsite.com” has not been registered.”
I found this post and this post about the problem and needed to register the domain with my Google Account, in this case my Google Apps Google Account.
So I went to:
https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains
Then 1. put in my site, mycoolwebsite.com and 2. clicked Add:
Then I clicked the “Manage mycoolwebsite.com” link and put in the “Target URL path prefix:” as http://mycoolsite.com
but the when I clicked in the link in WordPress for the Google Analyticator to Plug-In to login into google:
I got the error message:
“The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:
AuthSub target path prefix does not match the provided “next”URL
I read this and this and found the problem was that the next variable had a leading www. by the Target URL path prefix from above did not, here is the URL from the request:
“https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?next=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycoolwebsite.com%2Fwp-ad……”
You’ll notice the leading www. once this was added to the Target URL path prefix (described above):
I clicked on the link in WordPress for the Google Analyticator to Plug-In to login into google this time everything worked great.
I’ve been using this method to set up Analyticator on behalf of clients, but just hit a 20 domain limit. To make matters worse, it doesn’t appear possible to remove already-added domains. Has anyone else run into this yet?
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Thank you! That was by far the easiest to understand post I read on my issue and it fixed my problem right away!
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Thank you for outlining this; had the exact same problem (and tabled fixing it for quite some time!) and your solution saved me a lot of time when I finally decided to tackle it. Cheers!
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finally, someone talking sense about this issue! been banging my head against a brick wall for far too long over this! thanks
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John Reply:
August 3rd, 2011 at 2:04 pm
You’re welcome.
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Great job, thank you very much.
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Thank you so much. 18hrs after trying everything under the sun I finally found your post. Fix the problem in 10 mins and can finally get Yoast’s Google Analytics Plugin to work! Warmest Regards Brent.
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John Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 8:28 am
Great to hear you got it working. Cheers!
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Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to complete this tutorial.
This helped me out with the exact same problem no end.
Thanks again
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John Reply:
May 6th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Your welcome. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and I’m glad to hear it helped you.
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Thank you very, very much! I was in the impression this was a problem with my hosting environment, but following your instructions it’s now all working fine!
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