# Google Search Console - User Confusion **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Concrete / Help\ **Created:** [September 17, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052 "2026-09-17T19:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/petethepen1/32/5178_2.png) [@PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/PeteThePen1)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/1 "2026-09-17T19:26:11Z")
Currently using Concrete 9.5.1 and PHP 8.1.34. The site was re-built as new from an original V8 site whose pages of HTML had been copied and saved. To see how the site is doing I launched Google Search Console. That flagged many broken links which have now all been fixed. However it has also decided that there are Page Index errors, in particular “Server error (5xx); These pages aren’t indexed or served on Google”. The 180 pages listed are not pages that I have created or edited. For example: | [https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/controllers/feed.php](https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/controllers/feed.php) | 14 Sept 2026 | | | --- | --- | --- | | [https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/TaskQueue.php](https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/TaskQueue.php) | 12 Sept 2026 | | | [https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/nesbot/carbon/lazy/Carbon/TranslatorStrongType.php](https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/nesbot/carbon/lazy/Carbon/TranslatorStrongType.php) | 6 Sept 2026 | | | [https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/symfony/console/Tester/ApplicationTester.php](https://cyclingotherwise.co.uk/concrete/vendor/symfony/console/Tester/ApplicationTester.php) |  |  | These look like Concrete System files so I have not dared to go and delete them. Does anybody have any good ideas what to do next, apart from abandoning Google Search Console? Regards Pete ---
**Author:** ![PixelFields](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/pixelfields/32/3569_2.png) [@PixelFields](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/PixelFields)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/2 "2026-09-18T11:33:39Z")
Hi Pete, GSC is flagging that it has discovered these pages but either cannot access them to index (5xx because your server correctly doesn’t allow access to them) or doesn’t think they should be indexed. You said you haven’t intentionally created any of them so this is working correctly i.e. they don’t include content that you want Google to read. You’re absolutely correct they are Concrete system files (don’t delete them!) but you also don’t need Google to see them so there’s no real issue here. TLDR; relax! you’re fine 😎 ---
**Author:** ![JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/johnthefish/32/3767_2.png) [@JohntheFish](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/JohntheFish)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/3 "2026-09-18T15:50:10Z")
Could you be missing a robots.txt file which excludes the /concrete directory (and other system pages)? ---
**Author:** ![PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/petethepen1/32/5178_2.png) [@PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/PeteThePen1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/4 "2026-09-18T18:34:17Z")
Thank you both for your comments and suggestions. I will seek out the robots.txt file as I seem to recall that it was moved/deleted for some reason at one point in the past. If I have managed to delete it rather than just suspend it temporarily, can one easily re-generate it? I do have a second site of similar vintage (different topic) so could copy the file from there if it is generic rather than site specific. Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/mlocati/32/6208_2.png) [@mlocati](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/mlocati)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/5 "2026-09-18T21:16:33Z")
Do you have pretty urls enabled? ---
**Author:** ![PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/petethepen1/32/5178_2.png) [@PeteThePen1](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/PeteThePen1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/6 "2026-09-20T13:21:57Z")
Thank you all for your thoughts. I have got into File Manager and robots.txt is present and presumably correct. I have looked up ‘Pretty URLs’ since that was a new term for me and can conform that I have not attempted to set up any such, although I like the idea. The only other thought I had was that I do have a folder public\_html\_old which Google might be searching. I will prefix the ‘public’ bit in that folder with something else like Q and see if that makes any difference. ---
**Author:** ![Cahueya](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/cahueya/32/5178_2.png) [@Cahueya](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/Cahueya)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/7 "2026-09-20T23:42:51Z")
The robots.txt should not be in the File Manager, it should be in the root folder of the webhost. You should not see it in the concrete-Dashboard. ---
**Author:** ![ConcreteOwl](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/concreteowl/32/6290_2.png) [@ConcreteOwl](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/ConcreteOwl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/google-search-console-user-confusion/10052/8 "2026-09-21T08:12:45Z")
I think he may have been referring to the cPanel file manager. ![Screenshot 2026-09-21 091051](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5a7d778945582ad6187ac0ed0262618917b1a484.png)