I would like to verify my website in Google Search Console by uploading a file to my website - example.com which is hosted on Google Cloud Compute Engine (Wordpress site deployed with Google Cloud Launcher) . It has to be placed on a website as example.com/123googlesearchconsoleexample.html , but I cannot upload it via Cloud Shell from a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Is there a way to do this?
I tried gcloud compute copy-files command
gcloud compute copy-files gs://example/123googlesearchconsoleexample.html example-prd-vm:~/
, but it seems that it does not work in the browser and this is how I would like to do it (without installing SDK). The error I get is:
(gcloud.compute.copy-files) All sources must be local files when destination is remote.
I don't know if there's a way of doing it in a single step, but it looks like it should be easy to do in two steps:
$ gsutil cp gs://example/123googlesearchconsoleexample.html .
$ gcloud compute copy-files 123googlesearchconsoleexample.html example-prd-vm:~/
The first command copies from Google Cloud Storage to the VM running Cloud Shell. The second command then copies from that VM to example-prd-vm
... it's now copying a local file, so the error you're currently getting won't be applicable.
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