[Solution] Error – “The site has not been registered” during WordPress Import

John has posted a support request in our free forum asking for solution, following error which he has encountered while using ourย Blogger To WordPress Redirection User Guide (DIY Tutorial).

The Error Message Was…

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://example.com” has not been registered.

Why This Error Occurs:

Google originally built it’s ownย Google Authentication Service to access Google applications like sites, Google Map, Blogger Account, Analytics, etc. By using the Google Authentication Service is easy to access all the Google services.

Here is the solution:

While importing content from your blogger.com blog to WordPress, we are going to access Google service. For that we need to register your domain (or we can say, just to take permission by “registering” your domain with Google).

Register your domain here https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains to access all other services from Google.

Follow all the steps given below:

  • Add your domain name.

  • Click on manage domain name link.

  • After that select domain registrar of your domain from drop down menu.

  • I prefer to go with Recommended method.
  • Add the TXT data into your Domain registrar DNS settings. You can find all the details on the same page.
  • Then click on Verify button.
  • Add your domain URL and description.

  • Click on Save button.
  • Now your domain will get active to access Google services.

  • Save OAuth key and OAuth secrete for your future reference.
  • That’s done. You can access Google services in your Domain.

Now you are ready to import content from blogger account to WordPress and follow all the steps of our Blogger To WordPress Migration Tutorial. ๐Ÿ™‚

18 responses to “[Solution] Error – “The site has not been registered” during WordPress Import”

  1. I wish I found this guide earlier! My blogger to wordpress migration should have not taken months to finish. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Anyway thank you very much for this and your Best Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Blogger to WordPress Migration Guide.

  2. Thanks a lot again Nitun for all your hard works!

    Question though, I’m migrating my other blog and done all process above but now I get this error when trying to import: “AuthSub target path prefix does not match the provided “next” URL. ” you guys have idea to fix this?

  3. Thank you! I registered my site with Google. However, now I am getting the following error message when trying to import my blog:

    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.

    Any ideas?

    • Hi Holly,
      In above discussion, Neo also faced same problem. I found an article relevant for your query.
      You can also give it a try by adding ‘www’ prefix to your domain name while registering domain with Google. Hope it helps.
      Thanks.

  4. Hi Nitun,

    I am stuck with the blogger 2 wordpress migration and I need your assistance if you can. That would be great help.

    I have a blog at blogspot.com with expertlogic.blogspot.com and I would like to import it to http://obtuz.in which is a self hosted wordpress. I followed all the steps mentioned here and tried to import it but unfortunately I am getting this error again and again. I have mentioned the link where I am getting the error and the error message as well.

    Link where error message comes :

    accounts.google.com/b/0/AuthSubRequest?scope=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Ffeeds%2F&session=1&secure=0&next=http%3A%2F%2Fobtuz.in%2Fwp-admin%2Findex.php%3Fimport%3Dblogger%26noheader%3Dtrue

    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.

    Please suggest.

    • Hi Pankaj,
      I hope you followed all the steps mentioned in this article. The Google authentication process might take few minutes / hours to update.
      Also follow the steps mentioned in above comments. that would be helpful for you.
      Thanks.