XF 2.1 Sitemap ? No Sitemap Help?

[Smhzhl3461]

Xenforo 2.1 Sitemap.php ? No Sitemap ? Help

 

[cosmin85]

I think you don·t need it ,because xenforo automatically submit sitemap to search engines .
Acces : yourdomain.com/admin.php?options/groups/sitemap/#sitemapAutoSubmit and check that options.

 

[Smhzhl3461]

I think you don·t need it ,because xenforo automatically submit sitemap to search engines .
Acces : yourdomain.com/admin.php?options/groups/sitemap/#sitemapAutoSubmit and check that options.

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Google webmaster tools Sitemap.php Url Problem Error ?

 

[Smhzhl3461]

@Chris D Help ?

 

[Snog]

This is no longer the submission link for google sitemaps...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap={$url}

This is...
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap={$url}

Per this information (scroll down to bottom of page)...

Build and Submit a Sitemap | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Google supports several sitemap formats. Follow this guide to learn about formats, how to build a sitemap, and how to submit a sitemap to Google.

support.google.com

 

[Smhzhl3461]

[QUOTE = "Snog, gönderi: 1326593, üye: 41418"]
Bu artık google site haritalarının gönderim bağlantısı değil ...
[İCode] http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= {$ url} [/ iCode]

Bu...
[İCode] http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap= {$ url} [/ iCode]

Bu bilgiye göre (sayfanın en altına kaydırın) ...
[URL unfurl = "true"] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=tr [/ URL]
[/ALINTI]

url.com/sitemap.php

"no sitemap"

 

[Smhzhl3461]

This is no longer the submission link for google sitemaps...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap={$url}

This is...
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap={$url}

Per this information (scroll down to bottom of page)...

Build and Submit a Sitemap | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Google supports several sitemap formats. Follow this guide to learn about formats, how to build a sitemap, and how to submit a sitemap to Google.

support.google.com

url.com/sitemap.php

"no sitemap"

 

[Chris D]

If sitemap.php is simply returning no sitemap then it means the sitemap hasn't been built yet or there isn't enough guest visible data to generate the sitemap.

This should change automatically after a few days, especially if more content is added.

 

[PaulaG]

When I go to myurl.com/sitemap.php, it returns an XML payload like this

<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap-1.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2019-03-31T03:30:15+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap-2.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2019-03-31T03:30:15+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

which seems all well and good.

But shouldn't I be able to see sitemap-1.xml & sitemap-2.xml in my /forum directory? There are no sitemap*.xml files anywhere on my system.

 

[Chris D]

There are lots of URLs in XenForo which do not directly correspond with a file on your server.

Sometimes a URL programmatically loads the contents to display. Particularly on your site, the sitemap-1.xml and sitemap-2.xml files do actually load correctly, so that's all that matters.

 

[PaulaG]

Ah, thank you. When I do go to https://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap-1.xml it returns the sitemap XML payload.

 

[bevans84]

My installation returns a 404 when I enter the url/to/sitemap-1.xml
sitemap.php returns results similar to PaulaG's
Google shows success on reading the sitemap, but 0 url's

 

[PaulaG]

I'm not sure why I posted that going to forum/sitemap-1.xml returns the payload. That's wrong; you will get a 404. It does this because the xml doesn't physically exist as a file in the forum directory. Instead, forum/sitemap.php returns the correct sitemap payload. So sitemap.php is the URL you need to give Google search console, not the xml file name.

Even with this however, Google still couldn't index my site telling me that it was being blocked by robots.txt. I had robots.txt set to allow them in. I even removed robots.txt and it was still getting blocked. It wasn't being blocked in .htaccess either. I eventually tracked it down to a setting managed thru cPanel on the shared server we're using. In the Advanced section of cPanel I found an "Indexes" page and it was set to deny all indexing. Once I turned that off and restored my original robots.txt, Google indexed it just fine.

 

[Masetrix]

This is no longer the submission link for google sitemaps...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap={$url}

This is...
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap={$url}

Per this information (scroll down to bottom of page)...

Build and Submit a Sitemap | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Google supports several sitemap formats. Follow this guide to learn about formats, how to build a sitemap, and how to submit a sitemap to Google.

support.google.com

All http in your posting should be https

 

[Snog]

All http in your posting should be https

Not according to Google...

Use the "ping" functionality to ask us to crawl your sitemap. Send an HTTP GET request like this:
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=<complete_url_of_sitemap>
for example:
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://example.com/sitemap.xml

 

[Chris D]

Either works but the https version is the canonical version so use that as it saves a redirect.

 

[Ragister]

Hey, would like to clarify my problem with the sitemap.php.









What can it be that it doesn't work?