MadRanger Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 I installed the Create Sitemap MOD v12.0.0.2, ran the secondary process and posted the resulting file URL on Google analytics. That site reports a 404 even though Robots.txt Tester site indicates that Google-bot was Allowed. Any idea why the conflicting reports from Google? The link in my Secondary Process page opens the file location: https://www.carrfamilytree.com/tngsitemap1.xml.gz2021-10-25 https://www.CarrFamilyTree.com v13.0 Regis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theKiwi Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 The URL to the sitemap is incorrect... It should be https://www.carrfamilytree.com/tngsitemap1.xml.gz and indeed the SiteMap file is at that URL Where did the 2021-10-25 on the end of the URL come from - the Create Site Map Mod would not have done that. Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadRanger Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Roger, Thank you for your reply. I was too quick in copy-paste. Indeed the MOD generated the file name as you noted. However, when I clicked on the url in the MOD result, it appended the 2021-10-25 at the end. I used the SITEMAP INDEX address noted by the MOD yesterday and Google apparently found it - but could not ID the type file. This morning I used "Sitemap files" as named earlier by the MOD and it could not fetch. The file does have content: http://carrfamilytree.com/genealogy/index.phpweekly http://carrfamilytree.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=CFT2015-04-25T16:25:25+00:00weekly .... Thinking part of my problem is http:/https: related, I added these lines to my .htaccess from TNG WIKI RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadRanger Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Below is the Google Tester response Allowed status - even though Google's sitemap page above reports a 403 error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Roy Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Regis, Maybe it is because your site is not really available. When I use https://www.carrfamilytree.com/ I get back Quote Awesome Site in The Making An amazing site is coming to this web address. Check back soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theKiwi Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Yes, something odd is going on - I could access the site yesterday, but today as Ken notes it gives an error message. For Google, you just need to tell them the URL to the sitemapindex file - they read that and discover the URL(s) to the actual sitemap files which are .gz compressed. I'd try removing that code from the .htaccess file Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadRanger Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Roger. I removed the code from the .htaccess file this morning before even reading the newspaper. Just went back to check the Google sitemap status page - Success. Thank you for stepping in to help. Ken, I am still chasing the problem problem you mentioned. I thought it was the https: issue. I can log into the admin page, sign out and run the site as a guest. It must have something to do with the redirect from https://carrfamilytree.com to the subdirectory: https://carrfamilytree.com/genealogy/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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