Title: "The Google Maps API server rejected your request"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# "The Google Maps API server rejected your request"

 *  Resolved [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * (@hassanhamm)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/)
 * “The Google Maps API server rejected your request. The “sensor” parameter specified
   in the request must be set to either “true” or “false”.”
 * I get the above error whenever I try to view the page that contains the map when
   I’m NOT signed in. If I’m signed in, it displays fine though. I am using this
   shortcode:
 * `[flexiblemap id="office_map" width="100%" height="350" maptype="hybrid" zoom
   ="17" center="15.596158,32.571333" icon="http://www.example.com/blog/wp-content/
   themes/mytheme/imgs/icon.png" title="Site Title" description="Some Description"]`
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-flexible-map/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-flexible-map/)

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 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569810)
 * G’day Hassan, I used your shortcode sample in a test post and didn’t get that
   error. It sounds like something on your website is messing with the Google Maps
   API URL, or maybe you have another map plugin installed and that’s loading the
   API URL incorrectly.
 * Can you provide a link to your website where I can see this? If you don’t want
   to make the link public, please send it to me via my [contact page](http://www.webaware.com.au/contact-us/).
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * (@hassanhamm)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569947)
 * [@webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/), thank you for the
   response.
 * I don’t have another maps plugin installed. However, I did more testing and it
   appears that this error is displaying only when I’m not signed in as an admin.
   Which means visitors and users who are not admins are not able to see the map
   and get this error instead.
    _Did you try this when not signed in?_
 * My site is installed in a directory, not root. Could this have anything to do
   with the error?
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569950)
 * G’day Hassan,
 * This sounds eerily like another thread here. It could be that your theme is messing
   up the scripts from my plugin. See this thread for details.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-update-api-request-rejected](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-update-api-request-rejected)
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569975)
 * G’day Hassan,
 * I got your site link via email, and something on your site is definitely stripping
   all the query arguments off both script and stylesheet links. This is bad! It’s
   probably your theme, which you can confirm by switching to twentytwelve temporarily
   and testing your page with the map.
 * You need to find out what is doing that and stopping it. I suspect it’s someone’s
   idea of increasing security by removing version numbers, but it’s a bad idea 
   and as you can see, it breaks things. Maybe talk to whoever wrote your theme,
   or check to see if one of your other plugins is doing it — maybe a so-called “
   security” plugin for WordPress (if you have one of those, disable it and check
   again).
 * A quick search tells me that the “security” plugin [Better WP Security](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/)
   does this. If you have that plugin, toss it away, it’s breaking things.
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * (@hassanhamm)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569976)
 * Ross,
 * Thank you for taking the time to look into this issue, even tough it appears 
   to not be directly caused by your plugin.
 * It indeed was _that_ “security” plugin you mentioned that was the source of all
   this mess. Specifically, the option “Display random version number to all non-
   administrative users” in the plugin options. By disabling that option, I managed
   to get my map back (yay!). This explains why I could see the map only if I’m 
   signed in as admin, but get the error if I’m not signed in.
 * You did not only help me solve this, but you made me reconsider my “security 
   measures” regarding WordPress.
 * Thank you heaps, mate!
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3569977)
 * No worries, glad it was sorted out. I’ve added a new FAQ for this problem 🙂
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  [tkendrickweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkendrickweb/)
 * (@tkendrickweb)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-3570079)
 * Thanks for this post. I had the same issue.

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