XF 2.1 Where is the sitemap?

[Dimitrios]

Hi all. I'm having some issues I'm trying to resolve.

Either way, I need to submit my sitemap to google. Where can I find it. I see a sitemap.php in my /forum/ directory but the date there is from 2019 so, that cannot be it.

Where can I find the sitemap?

Thanks

 

[WxP]

try this : /public_html/internal_data/sitemaps

 

[Deleted member 184953]

Add this to your URL /sitemap.xml

 

[Dimitrios]

I see the content and it's wrong.

I was using the alias of the domain instead of the basic domainname. I just changed that.

In the sitemap I see the alias being used.

Is there a way to force re-generation of the sitemap?

Thanks

 

[WxP]

Is there a way to force re-generation of the sitemap?

Go AdmCP-Tols-Rebuild Caches-Rebuild search index-Delete the index before rebuilding

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[Dimitrios]

the Index? what I did there was to rebuild the sitemap. It contained the wrong URLs. Now it seems ok.

I submitted it to Google through the Search Console.

What's bothering be is that I see there, status "couldn't fetch" :


but then, when I click on it I see "sitemap processed successfully":




Which one to beleive?

 

[djbaxter]

Go AdmCP-Tols-Rebuild Caches-Rebuild search index-Delete the index before rebuilding

That's incorrect. That rebuilds the internal forum search index in your database. Nothing to do with Google or other search engines.

 

[WxP]

After this need to rebuild the sitemap...

 

[djbaxter]

the Index? what I did there was to rebuild the sitemap. It contained the wrong URLs. Now it seems ok.

I submitted it to Google through the Search Console.

What's bothering be is that I see there, status "couldn't fetch" :
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but then, when I click on it I see "sitemap processed successfully":

View attachment 242766


Which one to beleive?

Google sites are in an almost chronic lag state these days, ever since the COVID restrictions had them move most of their employees to remote work. Give it a while, like a few weeks, and it'll probably catch up to itself.

 

[WxP]

SitemapLast readStatus

Discovered URLs
/sitemap-1.xml	Dec 22, 2020	Success	50,000
/sitemap-2.xml	Dec 22, 2020	Success	2,373

 

[Dimitrios]

sitemap status has changed to "success"

Still not indexed, though

 

[WxP]

sitemap status has changed to "success"

Still not indexed, though

Need time to index ! Be patience

 

[duderuud]

As said before, it can take a few weeks...

 

[Dimitrios]

Just an update: 2.870 (out of 10.000) indexed

 

[Silmarillion]

Somehow the automatic sitemap submission doesn't seem to have worked for me. I only realized this today when I noticed that new topics were somehow not being indexed. So I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and submitted the new XF sitemap manually.







It doesn't seem to matter whether enter sitemap.php or sitemap.xml in the webmaster tools !? How can I be sure that everything is right and working from now on?