Sitemaps relatively easy to setup, follow these instructions...

x00

This discussion is related to the Sitemaps addon.

1) extract plug-in to plugins folder.
2) Point to /plugin/sitemaps/build in a browser
3) Check in cache that there is a sitemaps folder, and there are some sitemaps files in it.
4) In dashboard create a route expression: sitemap.([^\.]+).xml, target: cache/sitemaps/sitemap.$1.xml, type:internal.

You can view the site map index at /sitemaps.$1.xml, it list the sitemap location, which you can view also.

kingus

I tried this but I get this message:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

404
Page not found.

kingus

just tried it again and it now works, thanks a lot.
After step 4, I visited /sitemap.index.xml and It gave me the link to my sitemap.
Thanks again

x00

sorry that was a typo I ment vist sitemap.index.xml lol

sitemaps.$1.xml is a regex substitution.

Rajio

The problem I'm having still is that when I look in

http://www.delayofgame.ca/sitemap.index.xml

I just get:

<Exception
<C0de>404</C0de>
<Message>Page not found.</Message>
</Exception>


Rajio

but in /cache/sitemaps/ there are 2 files.

sitemaps.index.xml with the above contents and sitemap.5a181a7368794f045fcb2d8953de5fc7010a14e4.xml with what appears to be a real sitemap.


what should I do?

x00

You need to create a route as in step 4

x00

route expression: sitemap.([^\.]+).xml, target: cache/sitemaps/sitemap.$1.xml

Rajio

I swear thats what I did the first time I tried. seems to work now. sitmap seems to bring up:


<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"&gt;
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.delayofgame.ca/sitemap.fb47ad097dd2fe79036a274b3f3fb1605578bf5d.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2011-09-09</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>


perfect. thanks.

x00

Yep that is correct.

Originally the sitemap spec was only one, now it is possible to have more than one,hence the index.

x00

btw you can also set the sitemaps location in a robots.txt.l

tiki

I have set up sitemap successfully and I could access. I submitted it to google webmasters tool. And google is throwing error

-------------------------------------
"General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."
-------------------------------------

What could be reason? I could access sitemap from 2 diffrent pc.

Rajio

Same here. From what I can see my sitemap looks like I mentioned above, but when google checks it, webmaster tools tells me:

" Error: The last attempt at downloading the Sitemap failed. The details below are representative of the last successful download."

"General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."

"Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit."

x00

Curious. There are various way to submit site maps

google says it supports index files.

I didn't write this plugin btw, but it wouldn't be that hard to modify it to submit the sitemap itself preferably through curl, wordpress plugin does that. You could also have a dynamic robots.txt also using routes.

x00

At the moment I can't test becuase I have disallowed indexing.

x00

Since it is not like previous sitemaps are kept then you could simply put the contents of the sitemap in the index file. It would avoid the chance of missing one.

sashok

Here's an interesting question I was recently asked and I don't really know the answer to: let's say you have a WordPress blog running at www.domain.com and a Vanilla forum running at domain.com/forum

There are a plethora of WordPress plugins that make sitemaps for WordPress... but they don't touch other apps in the domain, like Vanilla.

So would it then be best to create a sitemap using a plugin like this one for Vanilla and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools, thus providing for 2 sitemaps for the same domain: one for WordPress and another for Vanilla?

What do you guys think?

x00

Yes so long as urls do not overlap in them.

BazLondon

It all seems to work just fine on the latest beta but when I check server headers for the sitemap.index.xml page, I get a 404. Google webmaster tools also gets the 404 obviously. Any hints?

Rajio

im still having the 404 and unsupported file format errors on google webmaster tools. any ideas what to do? its been a year since this plugin has been updated.

x00

ok it is very simple really in plugins/Sitemaps/class.sitemaps.plugin.php in RenderMap method add header('HTTP/1.0 200 OK'); before header('Content-Type: text/xml');

x00

It is basically becuase routes are normally used to direct to dynamic content rather than generated content. Technically this place does not exist.

Rajio

wow that totally worked. Thanks @x00!

BazLondon

Thank you x00. Much appreciated.

DuvalM

Thanks a lot x00. it all works because of you. I greatly appreciate it.

BackuPs

It does not work in version 2.0.18.1 or at least i cannot get it to work.

x00

working fine for me.

x00

point to /cache/Sitemaps/sitemaps.index.xml

it should also display at /sitemaps.index.xml either way you can submit it.

keshavhl

Doesn't this sitemap rebuild automatically when we create a new thread? I have to manually build the sitemap everyday..

keshavhl

Also this sitemap has no style sheet. Like in wordpress, we have sitemap enteries in the form of hyperlinks. Can't we do the same with vanilla?

keshavhl

I just noticed that the plugin is creating a duplicated post. Check here

http://www.environmentabout.com/forum/sitemap.e7a18e007f0e4c11fbea9410f2e408dbb537b118.xml

I have six posts right now and this plugin us creating post number 1 twice and there is no post for the entry 6.