XF 2.2 Confused by sitemaps...

[RobParker]

Could someone explain how XF creates sitemaps as I think I'm missing something.

The admin page says:
If this option is enabled, the sitemap will be rebuilt automatically periodically. If this option is disabled, the sitemap will only be updated when it is rebuilt manually through Tools > Rebuild caches. The current sitemap can be accessed via sitemap.php.

That link to sitemap.php is ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap.php but that contains the following:

<sitemapindex>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap-1.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2021-08-13T22:38:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap-2.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2021-08-13T22:38:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Those 2 xml files don't exist (404 errors).

Do I have something configured incorrectly?

 

[TPerry]

but it seems if you remove "ping?" the links do not work -- and I prefer we submit ourselves to the search engines rather than just hope they find us.

That's the point I'm trying to make... neither one of those entries require (nor want) you "submitting" your sitemap to them using the XF process now. Both should be removed and that check box unchecked unless you have other search engine sites that will allow submission by that method then you can place them in there.

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XF 2.2 Thread 'Sitemaps deprecated'

Jan 9, 2024

Hi

Google sitemaps ping finally have been deprecated (at least for me it was yesterday)...

So... what we have to do now? Deactivate that option on our forums (just the ping option, not create it option) and resubmit it manually?

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• Replies: 1
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[Paul B]

Those URLs should work.

For example:

https://xenforo.com/community/sitemap.php

https://xenforo.com/community/sitemap-1.xml

 

[RobParker]

Our site is installed in the root.

As I said, ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap.php exists and contains what I pasted above.

Neither sitemap-1.xml or sitemap-2.xml exist though (404).

 

[RobParker]

I click "download sitemap" and it just loads this:

<sitemapindex>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap-1.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2021-08-13T22:38:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.ourdomain.co.uk/sitemap-2.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2021-08-13T22:38:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

 

[RobParker]

Does it try to write a real file to that sitemap-1.xml location? Which user does it do that as? Could it be a filesystem permission issue? I'd assume an error would show somewhere if it couldn't write the file?

 

[Paul B]

Yes, the .xml files are physical files.

Try manually rebuilding the sitemap.

 

[RobParker]

That's what I did (the one 20 minutes ago was a manually built sitemap).

It's just not producing the .xml files.

 

[RobParker]

More info: The gzipped version seems to exist in internal_data