Googlebot receiving missing template error for an existing template

Question

In the last couple of days, we have started to receive a missing template error when the google bot attempts to access our main home page (welcome/index). I have been staring at this for a couple of hours and know that I am just missing something simple.

A ActionView::MissingTemplate occurred in welcome#index:
Missing template welcome/index with {:handlers=>[:erb, :rjs, :builder, :rhtml, :rxml, :haml], :formats=>["*/*;q=0.9"], :locale=>[:en, :en]}

But the template does exist (index.html.haml). If it didn't no one could access our home page.

Here is some additional environment information:

* REMOTE_ADDR                               : 66.249.72.139
* REMOTE_PORT                               : 56883
* REQUEST_METHOD                            : GET
* REQUEST_URI                               : /

* Parameters: {"controller"=>"welcome", "action"=>"index"}

Any insights you have would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The solution to the problem is to specify the format in your action.

Up until now, I had simply had the following in my index action

def index

end

Once I inserted a respond_to block

def index
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html
  end
end

I stopped getting the missing template errors.