code 401 message Request is missing required authentication

I have 2 sites with almost identical configuration and on one my GA keeps getting disconnected for the last few weeks. Basically i have to diconnect and reconnect every day. It syncs data and then the next day 401 again.

Strangely, on my other site it’s working just fine.

On a perhaps related side: I also cannot save counting settings options on both sites anymore with error: “Error: could not update settings”. Other boxes under options save fine though.

24. oktobra, 2022 08:00:03
An error was thrown with code “ga_get_data_error”, message “Error: 401: {
“error”: {
“code”: 401,
“message”: “Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.”,
“errors”: [
{
“message”: “Login Required.”,
“domain”: “global”,
“reason”: “required”,
“location”: “Authorization”,
“locationType”: “header”
}
],
“status”: “UNAUTHENTICATED”,
“details”: [
{
“@type”: “type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo”,
“reason”: “CREDENTIALS_MISSING”,
“domain”: “googleapis.com”,
“metadata”: {
“method”: “analytics.gaapi.v3.AnalyticsDataGa.Get”,
“service”: “analytics.googleapis.com”
}
}
]
}
}
” and debug data “array (
‘profile’ => ‘199644811’,
‘start_time’ => ‘2022-10-23’,
‘end_time’ => ‘2022-10-23’,
‘metrics’ =>
array (
0 => ‘ga:pageviews’,
),
‘optional_params’ =>
array (
‘max-results’ => 9999,
‘dimensions’ => ‘ga:pagePath’,
‘filters’ => ‘ga:pagePath!@/404.html;ga:pagePath!@/search/’,
‘start-index’ => 1,
),
)”.

AND A LOT OF THESE, BUT THESE ARE UNRELATED
24. oktobra, 2022 08:42:33
An error was thrown with code “no_author_with_total_payment”, message “No posts reach the threshold. Check your settings at Options > Counting Settings > Total Payment > Pay only when the total payment threshold is reached.” and debug data “false”.

I have both UA and GA4. I linked ppc to UA. I’m certain it’s linked to UA, because GA4 properties don’t even show up in PPC options and if I inspect the slected option in dropdown I can see the value matches my UA property view ID.

Now that I’m looking at it more, the only thing that stands out (copered to the other site, where everything is almost identical), is that property view name is using capital letters (MojPrihranek.si), while on the other site it’s writtent just as a www url. Maybe the caps are messing something up? I’ll try renaming it.

Yea, the non working one has all the same plugins and themes. The working one has a few more. They both have about 100 plugins so pinpointing a plugin conflict is gonna be a mess X_X. For now I’ll wait till tomorrow’s analytics update to see if renaming helped. Then I can make a staging copy and start disabling :/

I managed to figure it out. It’s not a plugin conflict. Some parts of the authorization process didn’t fully connect. Every time I disconnected and reconnected the authorization (which I had to do daily, as it would get deauthorized), it just asked me to pick my google account and copy the confirmation id. But it didn’t ask me to confirm all the data sharing.

Then I switched to another UA property, saved, and back, and this time it did also ask if I wish to share my data with ppc. Now it remembers the authorization.

Weird behaviour. I guess it’s fully on googles side.

Update on unauthenticated GA issue. After this fix my original site got disconnected. It turns out you cannot use the same g user account to access 2 different analytics for 2 different sites (even though they were in the same GA property). As if it disconnects on connecting a new site.

I had to give anayltics access to a second gmail account and connect a different user with each site.