Sitemaps: Not sure if it works

This discussion is related to the Sitemaps addon.

Hi all,

I'm using Sitemaps but i'm not sure that it works. I installed and enabled the plugin, but no sitemap.index.xml file gets created in my Vanilla root.

Maybe i have some wrong folder rights or something, can anybody tell me what else is to do to make it work?

Thanx
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Tim

Have you created a discussion since installing the addon? Additionally, the sitemap.index.xml gets created in the /cache/Sitemaps/ folder, not the vanilla root.

You can still access the file via http://www.yourdomain/path/to/vanilla/sitemap.index.xml though, because I hooked into the request chain, and when a sitemap.*.xml file is requested and exists, I pipe the file's contents from its cache folder into the output.

If the file is being generated in /cache/Sitemaps/, you're all set.

phreak

Hi Tim,

Nothing in my case. Sitemaps enabled, Cache CHMOD 777 but ~/cache/Sitemaps doesn't exist nor is the sitemap.index.xml possible to call. Vanilla 2.0.3

$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['Sitemaps'] = 'Sitemaps';
... in the config.php. So it is definitly working somehow

What could it be?

Tim

what about $Configuration['Plugins']['Sitemaps']['Enabled'] ?

This is a button on the dashboard menu called "Sitemaps" with a single toggle button inside. Have you pressed it?

phreak

Hi Tim,

Yes, Sitemaps is enabled in the dashboard. I sometimes just check the config.php and i thought > $Configuration['Plugins']['Sitemaps']['Enabled'] is the line to ensure that "enabling" has been written to the config-file.

So Sitemaps is enabled but no xml on my server under 2.0.3, any idea. Anyone else who made it working?

Tim

Is DOMXML enabled on your system? It should be, would be weird if it wasn't.
Are there any error messages in your Apache log?

igeekee

It's not working for me either.

LinusIndigo

I am on 2.0.6 and have a similar problem. I've installed and enabled this plugin and I have started a new discussion but no sitemap is created nor is there a cache/sitemaps/ folder.

theocas

Yeah, latest Vanilla version, and still isn't working.

Tim

I'm going to release a new version of Sitemaps soon.

andy231

any update to this coming ? bit disappointing that vanilla 2.0 doesnt have an inbuilt sitemap feature .... this is really a critical feature of modern sites ?

@Tim - thx for the great work on this. any ideas of ETA ?

Tim

When I get a chance. Hopefully this week. Working on SSO right now.

andy231

anything happening yet ? :P

andy231

Hey @Tim - any news regarding this ..... really hanging to add a sitemap for SEO etc etc ?

thekeeper

Hello people, Sitemaps plugin work, you have to go http://www.yourforumvanilla.com/plugin/sitemaps/build

Now, after this, you can find a sitemaps.index.xml in cache/Sitemaps

Note:
Add this in Cron schedule

Bye!

phreak

@thekeeper: Thanx for your input, but for my forum under 2.0.10 this doesn't seem to work.

Tim

thekeeper said:

Hello people, Sitemaps plugin work, you have to go http://www.yourforumvanilla.com/plugin/sitemaps/build

Now, after this, you can find a sitemaps.index.xml in cache/Sitemaps

Note:
Add this in Cron schedule

Bye!

It shouldn't be necessary to cron this. The plugin is designed to update the sitemaps as necessary.

adriansonline

Seems sitemaps is still not working, followed this thread, downloaded it and getting 404 at http://www.yourdomain/path/to/vanilla/sitemap.index.xml. Any solution?

andy231

yeah - really can't see why this isn't higher up on the importance list. no sitemap, no SEO and very hard to get content into google,bing etc ?

can you PLEASE fix this :-|

adriansonline

using this for now http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/, but I have a small forum. Not recommended if you have tons of threads.

webmatze

It seems that this line is not working:

if (!C('Plugins.Sitemaps.Enabled')) return;

If I remove all those lines from the class.sitemaps.plugin.php file it works!

webmatze

Okay, after further research I found that the right form to ask if a plugin is enabled (Vanilla Forums Version 2.0.11) is this:

if (!C('EnabledPlugins.Sitemaps')) return;

After I changed all the lines it works.

adriansonline

Hmmm... still not working for me...

Tim

Sitemaps 0.9 Released

- should fix the issues reported above.

TerminalAddict

fyi @Tim sitemaps generated include private posting (i.e. threads in forums that only administrators have access to )

DavyB

Does not seem to be working for me
would the fact that I have vanilla in a subdirectory of the domain make a difference?

Shaman

If the plugin does not update the sitemap,

search:
public function PostController_AfterDiscussionSave_Handler(&$Sender) {
$Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments['Discussion'];
$DiscussionPostDate = strtotime($Discussion->DateInserted);
$DiscussionPostIndex = (int)date('Y',$DiscussionPostDate) + (int)date('d',$DiscussionPostDate);

$LastDiscussionIndex = C('Plugin.Sitemaps.LastDiscussionIndex',0);

if ($DiscussionPostIndex > $LastDiscussionIndex) {
SaveToConfig('Plugin.Sitemaps.LastDiscussionIndex', $DiscussionPostIndex);
SaveToConfig('Plugin.Sitemaps.Regenerate', TRUE);
}
}

public function DiscussionController_BeforeDiscussionRender_Handler(&$Sender) {
if (!C('Plugin.Sitemaps.Regenerate')) return;
RemoveFromConfig('Plugin.Sitemaps.Regenerate');
$Sender->AddJsFile($this->GetResource('js/sitemaps.js',FALSE,FALSE));
}

and replace with:
public function PostController_AfterDiscussionSave_Handler(&$Sender) {
$this->Build();
}

Now you can set chmod 444 on file config.php to improve safety.

ginnycrandall

If the ones here don't work, there are some free ones available at http://www.freesitemapsubmit.com/ . Hopefully they will work well for you.

crmarks

Shaman's advice helped my sitemap start rebuilding after a new discussion topic is posted. It only seemed to include things from the past two days though, not all the topics that weren't put on the map during the two weeks it wasn't working properly.

phreak

Ieek, isn't this an approved plugin from t? Doesn't seem to work for a lot of people. Maybe it would be helpful to set its state back to "unaproved" so that people are warned.

maetthew

phreak said:

Ieek, isn't this an approved plugin from t? Doesn't seem to work for a lot of people. Maybe it would be helpful to set its state back to "unaproved" so that people are warned.

Was just about to say..