Title: Google Maps API server rejected your request
Last modified: August 7, 2017

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# Google Maps API server rejected your request

 *  [JohannesH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannesh/)
 * (@johannesh)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-forums-support-the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/)
 * Hej! I have included google maps in my wordpress blog post. I edit and view it
   using chrome, where it works fine. However, one of my friends just told me that
   if you visit it using http in Safari it does not work. (It seems the problem 
   is there for Firefox also).
 * The Google Maps API server rejected your request. Requests to this API must be
   over SSL. Load the API with “[https://&#8221](https://&#8221); instead of “[http://&#8221](http://&#8221);.
 * The thing is, I have linked to them using https like this (redacted the long 
   string to make it more readable here):
 * [googlemaps [https://www.google.com/maps/embed?LONG_STRING_HERE_REMOVED&w=600&h=450](https://www.google.com/maps/embed?LONG_STRING_HERE_REMOVED&w=600&h=450)
   allowfullscreen]
 * Here is the webpage in question:
    [http://photo.johanneshjorth.se/no-woman-is-an-island/](http://photo.johanneshjorth.se/no-woman-is-an-island/)
 * One quick workaround might be to force https on all webpages on the blog, but
   I wonder if there is a better fix. Also curious that safari and firefox is affected
   but not Chrome.
 * Thanks for your time!
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
      Reason: edited title

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 *  [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
 * (@broseph)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-forums-support-the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-9387594)
 * Hello!
 * It’s not good to run your website on both HTTP and HTTPS for various reasons.
   You basically have a duplicate site now, so you have to redirect your website
   from the HTTP version to HTTPS. That will also fix that error as well, since 
   the request to the API must be over HTTPS, not HTTP.
 * In order to do that, follow step 2 from this post: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-picture-not-showing-on-facebook-via-url/#post-9361246](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-picture-not-showing-on-facebook-via-url/#post-9361246)
 * Create a full backup first.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-forums-support-the-google-maps-api-server-rejected-your-request/#post-9387594)
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