XML Sitemap for XenForo 1.3 [Not needed, included in 1.4]

[Rigel Kentaurus]

I uninstalled before i updated my forum. And then i upgraded. I had no problems. I looked in my directroy and noticed that the "Sitemap" folder is still there. And there is rar/zip files. Can i delete the entire folder?

Delete the entire sitemap/ folder

You should not have zip/rar files in there, you probably want to investigate. This add-on creates none of that.

 

[51463]

Strange.. Here is what it looks like. Well it's too late. I deleted it.

 

[rdn]

Strange.. Here is what it looks like. Well it's too late. I deleted it.


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Those files are generated from this addon, you can now delete it.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Thanks for creating this addon. It was an important stop gap before 1.4.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Strange.. Here is what it looks like. Well it's too late. I deleted it.


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You scared me for a bit. Those are .gz files, generated by the add-on, they are not actually rar files. It just happens that you have winrar, and winrar can open them

Anyway, you can delete that folder if you upgraded.

 

[md_5]

Does 1.4 do robots.txt etc or will we still need this for that?

 

[rdn]

Does 1.4 do robots.txt

No
Just create it yourself

 

[JamesBrown]

Thanks. I've put the .htaccess back as it was and used a regular robots.txt.

I have 12 sitemaps, do I have to point to them all in robots.txt or is it good enough just to point to the one forum/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz

In robots.txt do I point the sitemap to that one map,(forum/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz) or all of them. Thanks

 

[rdn]

In robots.txt do I point the sitemap to that one map,(forum/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz) or all of them. Thanks

Just like this.

 

[Carla Birch]

Like others above, i wish to thank you for making this add-on, it's done great things for our site and really filled in a big gap we had after moving from vB4.

 

[JamesBrown]

Just like this.

But robots.php points to the wrong location !

That's a long standing bug, the robots.php functionality wasn't really playing well when XF is installed in a directory.
I'll get that fixed in a future version.

So we are using robots.txt because php will get us nowhere. Your software made 12 sitemaps so how do we reference all of these in the robots.txt. Do we just point to one of the maps or have a separate line for each. Thanks

 

[fEaRz]

Thank you @Rigel Kentaurus for the add-on.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

But robots.php points to the wrong location !



So we are using robots.txt because php will get us nowhere. Your software made 12 sitemaps so how do we reference all of these in the robots.txt. Do we just point to one of the maps or have a separate line for each. Thanks

In robots.txt you just need the index one, that one points to the rest

 

[Michael Berg]

There are several ways to make Google notice your Sitemap

One is going to Google WebMaster tools, registering your site, and adding your sitemap manually. This works.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

The other one is to just update the robots.txt entry, and add a line containing Sitemap: url
for example, my robots.txt looks like this

Sitemap: http://fanficslandia.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz

(I guess the other one is just making the Sitemap generator ping Google, but what would be the fun in that?)

So what would the sitemap url be?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

So what would the sitemap url be?

YOUR_SITE_URL/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz

 

[Michael Berg]

YOUR_SITE_URL/sitemap/sitemap.xml.gz

hmm ...reporting 504 error when testing sitemap

404 error

ok i got it--had to add 2 more folder levels in the url

 

[Kerby]

Will this addon be further more in development and supported for xf1.4+ or do we have on xf1.4 to switch to xf core? cause I have a small request for better comfort.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Will this addon be further more in development and supported for xf1.4+ or do we have on xf1.4 to switch to xf core? cause I have a small request for better comfort.

XenForo will already include a sitemap on 1.4, so you would not need this anymore.
You can technically keep using the addon but most people prefer the out of the box one. I already tested this with 1.4

 

[Kerby]

ok, I've checked both addon and core and it seems that i only will miss "Additional URLs to include" feature.

 

[rdn]

it seems that i only will miss "Additional URLs to include" feature.

No.