SitemapXML v.2

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Originally Posted by mzimmers

Is there a reason you're not using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress? It works great, lasts a long time and fixes itself.

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Originally Posted by gaffettape

I was considering it, but wasn't sure if having two separate .xml sitemap systems in place was wise :wacko:

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Don't undertstand your concern.. You need to install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress.. Otherwise you'll have no other way to generate a sitemap for your blog. The short answer to your original question is no.. You can't use this Zen cart module as is to generate a sitemap for both your store and your blog. You could always have the code customized for that purpose, but it's likely you will need to seek out commercial options for this kind of customization..

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Don't undertstand your concern.. You need to install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress.. Otherwise you'll have no other way to generate a sitemap for your blog. The short answer to your original question is no.. You can't use this Zen cart module as is to generate a sitemap for both your store and your blog. You could always have the code customized for that purpose, but it's likely you will need to seek out commercial options for this kind of customization..

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Thanks for answering all my questions DivaVocals :smile:

Hello,

I would really link to use this module with the Multisite module.
Does someone already use the 2 modules together.
I don't know how to setup the robots.txt and generate the sitemaps into different location. Can you point me into the right direction? thanks,

Well, I've got a question about this mod. I've used it for a few years now, and never had any problems but I've got one now as follows:

Installed: one site using 1.3.8a with SSL
Results: working perfectly after install with NO changes made.

Installed: another site using 1.3.9b NO SSL
Results: Error loading gss.css

Same host for both.

Changed all permissions to 777 on the second one.......still no luck.
Does the problem lie within the SSL, or the ZC version?

Hi, installed this module but received the following error. Please help.

Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:

/includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl

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Originally Posted by dealbyethan.com

Hi, installed this module but received the following error. Please help.

Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:

/includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl

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Hi, see post #396 on page 40.

I had the same problem and the referenced post fixed it.

Hi all,

Is there a way that the sitemap generated by this module would be www instead of just http :// The only reason I ask this because search engines only index your urls http:// or with http://www, so its kind of duplication kind of thing.

Example of this is

http://mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml (thats how it generates)

I'm wondering if it could generate like

http://www.mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Get Em Fast

Well, I've got a question about this mod. I've used it for a few years now, and never had any problems but I've got one now as follows:

Installed: one site using 1.3.8a with SSL
Results: working perfectly after install with NO changes made.

Installed: another site using 1.3.9b NO SSL
Results: Error loading gss.css

Same host for both.

Changed all permissions to 777 on the second one.......still no luck.
Does the problem lie within the SSL, or the ZC version?

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Hmmm......I've tried the "hacks" that's been posted for this, and it DOES seem to work for the sitemapindex.xml, but once there, it DOESN'T work for the rest of the sitemaps. I'm still getting the same error on those.
All conditions are still the same as above (hosts, SSL, etc.).
Anybody have any more ideas?

Hi,

I have solve the probleme too, following last post in this theard.
In my case, it was not enougth

Check your link on
http://www.domaine.com/sitemapindex.xml
if its good.
For me, the problem comme back on
http://www.domain.com/sitemapcategories.xml and other.

I have to change the ligne 2 in every files
sitemapcategories.xml and other

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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl"?>

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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="gss.xsl"?>

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Regards
olivier

All worked out, now. After I made the "hacks", and moved gss.xls, I had forgot to reset the permissions on it.

Ok,
...Juste for information, In which permission you reset?
Not knowing which one is better, I maintain 777, but it is a little afraid ...

Regards
olivier

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Originally Posted by OLIVIER72

Ok,
...Juste for information, In which permission you reset?
Not knowing which one is better, I maintain 777, but it is a little afraid ...

Regards
olivier

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I changed permission to 777 on gss.xsl

Hi,
Ok U2, you keep 777...
Is it a problem to change permission to 644 on all .xml and .xsl files after rebuilded the sitemap.
I don't know exactly how Zen Tamplate work. It need 777 to work fine?

Regards

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Originally Posted by OLIVIER72

Hi,
Ok U2, you keep 777...
Is it a problem to change permission to 644 on all .xml and .xsl files after rebuilded the sitemap.
I don't know exactly how Zen Tamplate work. It need 777 to work fine?

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By changing file permission from 644/444 to 755/777 means you are telling is to execute and write, if its not writable then sitemap won't be generated. If your host doesn't allow 777 then change it to 755.

Yes...,
Ok, that what I wanted to know. Files return into 755 permission.

Thanks
olivier

(This is for if you have the stylesheet error with gss.xsl)
Here is why this addon won't work with zencart. You don't need to move anything anywhere or do anyother hack except to change the .htaccess file under your "includes" folder.

/web-site-root/includes/.htacess

on line 26 you will find:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$">

Change the line to:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF|xsl|XSL)$">

You are by doing that allowing the filetypes *.xsl and *.XSL to be accessed by an external browser.

My .htaccess version is:
# @version $Id: .htaccess 16111 2010-04-29 22:39:02Z drbyte $
So perhaps that is why on zencart 1.38 it works and not on the newer 1.3.9a.

drbyte is working some late hours, send him some coffee :)


MODERATOR NOTE: xsl has been added to the .htaccess for v1.3.9f and newer.

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Originally Posted by Get Em Fast

All worked out, now. After I made the "hacks", and moved gss.xls, I had forgot to reset the permissions on it.

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Where do you move the gss.xls to? What hacks all of them or just this one. Thank you

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Originally Posted by mrtz

For the problem below.



I think it's about permission. So, I did the following steps to make it work :

Look for file "/includes/modules/pages/sitemapxml/header_php.php"

Search for : $zen_SiteMapXML->setStylesheet($tpl_dir . '/gss.xsl');

Then, change to : $zen_SiteMapXML->setStylesheet('/gss.xsl');

Then, copy gss.xsl file from /includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl to /gss.xsl

Generate Sitemap again. By the way, I'm using Zencart 1.3.9c

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

Where do you move the gss.xls to? What hacks all of them or just this one. Thank you

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Anybody

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Originally Posted by Payam

(This is for if you have the stylesheet error with gss.xsl)
Here is why this addon won't work with zencart. You don't need to move anything anywhere or do anyother hack except to change the .htaccess file under your "includes" folder.

/web-site-root/includes/.htacess

on line 26 you will find:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$">

Change the line to:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF|xsl|XSL)$">

You are by doing that allowing the filetypes *.xsl and *.XSL to be accessed by an external browser.

My .htaccess version is:
# @version $Id: .htaccess 16111 2010-04-29 22:39:02Z drbyte $
So perhaps that is why on zencart 1.38 it works and not on the newer ones.

drbyte is working some late hours, send him some coffee :)

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Must have mess this some how. Works

Why does google index only one namely the index.php page ???

I don't understand when I have 2226 products the sitemap is just writing 2217 of them. Anybody have any suggestion why. Thank you in advance. I'm running zencart v1.3.9d

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

Where do you move the gss.xls to? What hacks all of them or just this one. Thank you

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Just in case anyone else is still wondering, the filepath "/" refers to your store root directory. So if your store was in www.mydomain.com/shop you would move gss.xls to "/shop". If your store was www.mydomain.com your would move to just "/" (your public_html folder).

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Originally Posted by Kenichi

Just in case anyone else is still wondering, the filepath "/" refers to your store root directory. So if your store was in www.mydomain.com/shop you would move gss.xls to "/shop". If your store was www.mydomain.com your would move to just "/" (your public_html folder).

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Actually you don't have to move the gss.xls at all, or do no hacking to any file. Just change a line in your .htaccess file and everthing will work. See below. Thanks for the post Payam

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Originally Posted by Payam

(This is for if you have the stylesheet error with gss.xsl)
Here is why this addon won't work with zencart. You don't need to move anything anywhere or do anyother hack except to change the .htaccess file under your "includes" folder.

/web-site-root/includes/.htacess

on line 26 you will find:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$">

Change the line to:
<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF|xsl|XSL)$">

You are by doing that allowing the filetypes *.xsl and *.XSL to be accessed by an external browser.

My .htaccess version is:
# @version $Id: .htaccess 16111 2010-04-29 22:39:02Z drbyte $
So perhaps that is why on zencart 1.38 it works and not on the newer ones.

drbyte is working some late hours, send him some coffee :)

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I just noticed a problem with sitemap.xml particularly the sitemapproducts.xml uploading info to google. I installed it approx 6 weeks ago. Just lately I got some 301 errors from google on webmaster that the following url does not exist?

http://www.ethoil.com/store/language...0ml-0-3oz-p-12


sitemapproducts.xml is uploading the above url to google. However the folder of /language/en do not exist on my server... why are they being generated? as it should just read

http://www.ethoil.com/store/pure-cha...0ml-0-3oz-p-12

any ideas Please on how to fix this??

What are people using to ping Microsoft, as the included "moreover" link returns the following error

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The Moreover ping server has been discontinued. Please use the ping server at weblogs.com instead, see http://www.weblogs.com/api.html for more information.

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and when i go there i am baffled,

I added the bing one as per below, and the link is in my robots.txt

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Originally Posted by Stuff4Toys

I read back a few pages and didn't see this. Pardon me if I missed it. If you have a Windows Live account and use the Live Webmaster Tools, You can ping bing directly by adding the following on the configuration page after the Moreover entry.

Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s


JOhn :P

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Originally Posted by nigelt74

What are people using to ping Microsoft, as the included "moreover" link returns the following error



and when i go there i am baffled,

I added the bing one as per below, and the link is in my robots.txt

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I would like to know also.

Hi!

Quick question: Is SitemapXML v2.1.0 the latest version?

Thanks,
Mike

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Originally Posted by Feznizzle

Hi!

Quick question: Is SitemapXML v2.1.0 the latest version?

Thanks,
Mike

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Whatever is in the downloads is the current version as of now.

Great, thanks!

I have read/scanned through all the pages of this thread and could not find an answer.

I am running 1.3.8 with xml sitemap 2.1 and the newest ultimate SEO URLS. When I create the site map I do not get the modified SEF URL. What is strange is I have another store with the same mods installed and it works fine. I even went and copied files from the other store trying to fix it, because I couldn't remember if I had to change something to get it to work there. This is killing my Google rankings! Please help, Thank you.

One other thing that might help figure this out. My google base mod works fine and does have the SEF URL in the feed... This is driving me crazy!

Why can't I figure this out?

Grrrrr! :censored:

Ok, I was getting cURL 403 errors on submission to Yahoo. In searching back thru the forum, I made some changes to my configuration based things I read.

One change I made was to the code associated with the creation of gzip files based upon THIS COMMENT.

I then went into Configuration / Sitemap XML and flipped on the gzip function. I went back to Tools / Sitemap XML and did STEP 1 (update sitemap).

It kicked out the following errors for each of the four sitemaps:
Failed to open file "sitemacategories.xml.gz"!!!

In looking at the directory via ftp, I found that:
• sitemapcategories.xml <-- does exist!
• sitemapcategories.xml.gz <-- does not exist!

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Hi,

I have had this working fine on a number of 1.39d shops, but one of them gives me a blank popup when I click "STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your site map. "

ZC 1.39d, SEO URLs and a bunch of other plugins - but exactly the same as two shops that work fine!

Uninstalled and reinstalled with no joy - any ideas?

Cheers,

Nick

What did you find wrong when it was directing you to the "Page Not Found"? I having same issue.

Hi there,
I've just now isntalled this and set it up and am unsure on the correct URL to insert at Google.

I want to ensure that Google receives a fresh set of data whenever it comes looking.

Is this the correct URL for that:

index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&inline=yes&rebuild=yes

It generates a page with 3 sitemap URLs listed. However I can't tell if it's going to stay fresh automatically.

Thanks for any advice on this
Rob

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Originally Posted by AndyChap

What did you find wrong when it was directing you to the "Page Not Found"? I having same issue.

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I just get a blank page - no error or 404 messsage...

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Originally Posted by robax

Hi there,
I've just now isntalled this and set it up and am unsure on the correct URL to insert at Google.

I want to ensure that Google receives a fresh set of data whenever it comes looking.

Is this the correct URL for that:

index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&inline=yes&rebuild=yes

It generates a page with 3 sitemap URLs listed. However I can't tell if it's going to stay fresh automatically.

Thanks for any advice on this
Rob

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I usually submit yourdomain.com/sitemapindex.xml and then google picks up the other three from there. You can submit them manually using sitemapcategories.xml etc if you prefer.

Nick

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Originally Posted by Nick_H

I usually submit yourdomain.com/sitemapindex.xml and then google picks up the other three from there. You can submit them manually using sitemapcategories.xml etc if you prefer.

Nick

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Thanks for the reply,

That's yet another version of the URL to add to the list. This addon has very confusing setup.

However, the URL I have seems to work, and the question is whether the extra bits on the URL will cause it to automatically generate a fresh sitemap or if I have to trigger that manually.

index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&inline=yes&rebuild=yes

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Originally Posted by robax

Thanks for the reply,

That's yet another version of the URL to add to the list. This addon has very confusing setup.

However, the URL I have seems to work, and the question is whether the extra bits on the URL will cause it to automatically generate a fresh sitemap or if I have to trigger that manually.

index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&inline=yes&rebuild=yes

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You can set up a cron job to run the sitemap auto in your cpanel.
Not confusing at all.

Tips
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To run it as a cron job (at 5:0am like you wanted), put something in your crontab like the following:
0 5 * * * GET 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml'
or
0 5 * * * wget -q 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml' -O/dev/null
or
0 5 * * * curl -s 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml'
or
0 5 * * * php -f <path to shop>/cgi-bin/sitemapxml.php rebuild=yes

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

You can set up a cron job to run the sitemap auto in your cpanel.
Not confusing at all.

Tips
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To run it as a cron job (at 5:0am like you wanted), put something in your crontab like the following:
0 5 * * * GET 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml'
or
0 5 * * * wget -q 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml' -O/dev/null
or
0 5 * * * curl -s 'http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml'
or
0 5 * * * php -f <path to shop>/cgi-bin/sitemapxml.php rebuild=yes

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Thanks for the reply, but I don't have cronjobs and I don't have a cpanel.

I'm looking for the answer to this: Does anyone know whether this URL:

index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&inline=yes&rebuild=yes

With "rebuild=yes" at the end, actualy rebuilds the sitemaps when it is accessed, or does it do nothing of the sort?
Regards
Rob

The beginning of the end of Yahoo?

Looks like Yahoo are slowly closing down their search engine.
After digging around for the correct ping URL for about an hour, I found another forum with the same problem:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo_search/4169558.htm

All the Yahoo ping services have been taken offline a few weeks ago.
The help pages still mention them. I submitted a support ticket, but I'm not holding out hope. For now I'm just going and manually doing it through Yahoo SiteExplorer, which still seems to exist, but for how long?

EDIT: Looks like I'm a bit behind the times - Yahoo and Bing are merging. http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/news/...ing-algorithm/
Nice of them to keep their docs out of date...

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Originally Posted by kelvyn

EDIT: Looks like I'm a bit behind the times - Yahoo and Bing are merging. http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/news/...ing-algorithm/
Nice of them to keep their docs out of date...

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Thanks for the update Kelvyn, this has been bugging me!

I guess it simplifies things for us (those working on SEO), but I don't think I like the dimensioning diversity when it comes to searching. :no:

I uploaded all files to my store directory however, when I go to the Tool- Sitemap XML I get the following page :
404 Not Found
The requested URL /ironsightsadmin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php does not exist.

Any idea of what the problem is ?
I'm currently using v1.3.9d

Fixed my blank popup issue - it was some rogue spaces in my sitemapXML.php file. Fixed due to error logging built into 1.39d and helpful "How-To" post by DrByte elsewhere on this site :)

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=87

Nick

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Originally Posted by Nick_H

Hi,

I have had this working fine on a number of 1.39d shops, but one of them gives me a blank popup when I click "STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your site map. "

ZC 1.39d, SEO URLs and a bunch of other plugins - but exactly the same as two shops that work fine!

Uninstalled and reinstalled with no joy - any ideas?

Cheers,

Nick

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uploaded all files to my store directory however, when I go to the Tool- Sitemap XML I get the following page :
404 Not Found
The requested URL /ironsightsadmin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php does not exist.

Any idea of what the problem is ?
I'm currently using v1.3.9d

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I had the same issue (just installed on 1.38a this am) and found I had missed a file. You might make sure you have "sitemap.xml" in the root of your admin.

Worked for me, hope it works for you.

Dalton

I'm having a little problem with the Sitemap XML, its always worked in the past but now i'm getting an x next to sitemap.xml in Google Webmasters, i tried Googling it ( lol )

This came up.

http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p...c543225c&hl=en

Seems to suggest Google have changed a few things.

My sitemapcategories.xml and sitemap products.xml is fine and getting a tick in Webmasters but the index is always getting an X.

Anyone an idea of how to fix this, all suggestions welcome. Incidentally its not a permissions error as i have it set to 755.

Hello, I'm having trouble generating the sitemaps for my website computernetworkingsolutions.co.uk

For example http://www.computernetworkingsolutio...approducts.xml

gives: Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:http://www.computernetworkingsolutio...lt/css/gss.xsl (when using firefox)

Can anyone help me out here considering i'm not using template_default? Thanks

IF you've got something like this in your .htaccess file:

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<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF|xsl|XSL)$">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>
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Then you need to add the 'xsl' to it. You should have no issues after that. (happened to me...)

Have fun.

That worked.
Thanks for that Fez-o :thumbsup:

but now it's not working with the seo urls which I imagine could be important when using sitemaps.

I will have another look tomorrow but if anyone can suggest a quickfix I would be grateful.

a little OT but, are you seeing the 'catagory-0' instead of the actual name? ... I ask since that's what I'm getting with the SSU now - I'm just waiting till I get all my products on the new site.

Yes the url is coming up as http://computernetworkingsolutions.c...24&language=en

and not the catagory (or product) name.

This mod works perfectly with my old 1.3.8 website so it must be because of the update.

If I find a solution I will post here.

I'm having a similar problem with Yahoo & Microsoft submissions.
The errors I'm getting are:

Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "403" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tropicalsoul.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
And for Microsoft:

Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tropicalsoul.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"

When I enter "www.moreover.com" into Chrome, it redirects to "http://w.moreover.com" which appears to be a commercial site called "Moreover Technologies". I don't know where the Moreover site came from, but it's obviously not correct. I also don't know how long it's been in my copy of SitemapXML V2.1, as I don't usually run it. My wife does after she's added new products. I do know where to change it in the Admin, I just don't know what it should read. I just found out about it yesterday when she asked me to run it while she was out on an errand.

Thanks!

jbthomasfl,

They recently made a change to moreover. If you click on the link you just posted for moreover, it shows an error message that directs you to http://www.weblogs.com/api.html for more info. You'll have to manually update the link in Configuration > Sitemap XML > Ping urls with the change. I changed the link for moreover to this: http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=sitemap&url=%s

Not sure if that's right, but it didn't throw an error.

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The yahoo problem has been discussed going way back in this thread. Dunno the answer, but if you find a fix, please post it.

hi, I am working on some project, is it possible to add google sitemap to zen 1.3.9d? working?

sitemapxml__formerly_google_sitemap_2-1-0 + zen 1.3.9d ?

thanks :flex:

mataleo, i installed and, until now, it worked fine.

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

I do not know why the zen-team put this module to the old module Google Sitemap. These are different modules.

You can uninstall old Google Sitemap module and use only SitemapXML.

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is it working with zen 1.3.9d?

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Originally Posted by igrossiter

mataleo, i installed and, until now, it worked fine.

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i got ultimate seo instaled

what zen u use?

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Originally Posted by mataleo

i got ultimate seo instaled

what zen u use?

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got it working

works nice so far http://www.vodeoo.com

Might pay to check the urls generated by this mod to ensure they fit within the current (1.39e) scheme of things for canonical URL handling. Mine was a bit of a mess, so had to generate one by other means and edit out the duplicates.

hi,

installed, configured, addied sitemap to google webmasters

can someone have look it generates links right?

http://vodeoo.com/sitemapproducts.xml

like : http://vodeoo.com/clever-robot-vacuu...ml?language=en

why its got "?language=en" at the end there? is it ok? :clap:

i got zen 1.3.9d + ultimate seo urls


and why its generates http://vodeoo.com/ ? not http://www.vodeoo.com/ is this any matter to google ? :flex:

got one more problem on stem 2 in zen admin, when try to ping servers

google and ask.com seems to be okay, but yahoo and microsoft got errors

i did add to robots.txt line : Sitemap: http://www.vodeoo.com/sitemapindex.xml

but still error

how to fix yahoo?

Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "403" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fvodeoo.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"

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Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvodeoo.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"


any ideas please


thank you

:clap:

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Originally Posted by mataleo

got one more problem on stem 2 in zen admin, when try to ping servers

google and ask.com seems to be okay, but yahoo and microsoft got errors

i did add to robots.txt line : Sitemap: http://www.vodeoo.com/sitemapindex.xml

but still error

how to fix yahoo?

Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "403" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fvodeoo.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"

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Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvodeoo.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml"


any ideas please


thank you

:clap:

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ok fixed microsoft ping with this :

"You'll have to manually update the link in Configuration > Sitemap XML > Ping urls with the change. I changed the link for moreover to this: http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=sitemap&url=%s"

looks ok

yahoo seems to sometimes works sometimes not, so it ok i guess...


so only problem what i got is why its generates links like i said above ?

thx

Quote:

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Originally Posted by mataleo

hi,

and why its generates http://vodeoo.com/ ? not http://www.vodeoo.com/ is this any matter to google ? :flex:

---

You'll need to add something like this to your htaccess (root of your website), and then generate a new sitemap:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vodeoo.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.vodeoo.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You need to set generate language id to false on the admin side.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mataleo

hi,

installed, configured, addied sitemap to google webmasters

can someone have look it generates links right?

http://vodeoo.com/sitemapproducts.xml

like : http://vodeoo.com/clever-robot-vacuu...ml?language=en

why its got "?language=en" at the end there? is it ok? :clap:

i got zen 1.3.9d + ultimate seo urls


and why its generates http://vodeoo.com/ ? not http://www.vodeoo.com/ is this any matter to google ? :flex:

---

Does anyone know how to modify this mod to Use cPath in product info url? Thanks!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jetx

You'll need to add something like this to your htaccess (root of your website), and then generate a new sitemap:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vodeoo.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.vodeoo.com/$1 [R=301,L]

---

your solution does not work with seo ultimate urls on, when go in to product, the page not load, error...

how about:



curl -s :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>SiteMapXML : Vodeoo, Wholesale Electronic Gadgets and Top Designer Clothes.</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Shoes Electronics shoes, clothes, t-shirt, adidas, nike, superdry, Calvin Klein, ED HARDY, Ben Sherman, D&G, Crosshatch, electronics, gadgets, dvd, gps, chinese wholesale, china dropship, china electronics, cheap electronics SiteMapXML" />
<meta name="description" content="Vodeoo : SiteMapXML - Shoes Electronics shoes, clothes, t-shirt, adidas, nike, superdry, Calvin Klein, ED HARDY, Ben Sherman, D&G, Crosshatch, electronics, gadgets, dvd, gps, chinese wholesale, china dropship, china electronics, cheap electronics" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart&trade; Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart&trade;, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

<base href="http://vodeoo.com/" />



What last line is? what file is it in?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mataleo

your solution does not work with seo ultimate urls on, when go in to product, the page not load, error...

how about:



curl -s :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>SiteMapXML : Vodeoo, Wholesale Electronic Gadgets and Top Designer Clothes.</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Shoes Electronics shoes, clothes, t-shirt, adidas, nike, superdry, Calvin Klein, ED HARDY, Ben Sherman, D&G, Crosshatch, electronics, gadgets, dvd, gps, chinese wholesale, china dropship, china electronics, cheap electronics SiteMapXML" />
<meta name="description" content="Vodeoo : SiteMapXML - Shoes Electronics shoes, clothes, t-shirt, adidas, nike, superdry, Calvin Klein, ED HARDY, Ben Sherman, D&G, Crosshatch, electronics, gadgets, dvd, gps, chinese wholesale, china dropship, china electronics, cheap electronics" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart&trade; Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart&trade;, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

<base href="http://vodeoo.com/" />



What last line is? what file is it in?

---

ok fixed

edit configuration files

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

You need to set generate language id to false on the admin side.

---

fixed, thanks

i got one more question

do I add only sitemapindex.xml in google webmasters and yahoo ? as its got all other map links in it? so i not double links

like i should not add sitemapcategories.xml there as its already in sitemapindex.xml ? is that right?

cuz i see sitemapindex.xml is enough for google, but cant see if its ok with yahoo?

thanks

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mataleo

i got one more question

do I add only sitemapindex.xml in google webmasters and yahoo ? as its got all other map links in it? so i not double links

like i should not add sitemapcategories.xml there as its already in sitemapindex.xml ? is that right?

cuz i see sitemapindex.xml is enough for google, but cant see if its ok with yahoo?

thanks

---

sitemapindex.xml is the only link you need to submit as they are all smart enough to process the links inside that file. You also want to include this in your robot.txt file. If you want to submit individual sitemap you can do that but then you will not submit sitemapindex.xml in that case.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

sitemapindex.xml is the only link you need to submit as they are all smart enough to process the links inside that file. You also want to include this in your robot.txt file. If you want to submit individual sitemap you can do that but then you will not submit sitemapindex.xml in that case.

---

thanks, thats what i thought

so what i do after add new products and categories?, (i got crontab set up already), so cron is generating sitemap everyday, so i dont need to do it manaly, right? do I have to ping search engines?, or just leave it, and they will find it anyway (yahoo, goodle) ?(ping - step 2 in zen admin setemaps)



thanks

Hi,

I've just tried to install sitemapXML, but I'm a little bit lost I think...

As per instructions document:

Install:
========
1. Unzip and upload all files to your store directory;
2. Go to Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and install install.sql.
3. Go to Admin->Configuration->Google Sitemap Configuration and setup all parameters
4. Go to Admin->Tools>Google XML Sitemap (If error messages occur, change permissions on the XML files to 777);

My questions:

1. Presumably I shouldn't be putting the install.sql and uninstal.sql into my store root folder should I?
2. This step went OK.
3. This was OK, except it is now called Sitemap XML in the menu.
4. THERE IS NO ADMIN>TOOLS>Sitemap XML option. Should I have a menu option here to click on???

I'm running zencart 1.3.9f with no other mods.

Now that it is presumably installed, how do I generate the sitemaps?

Thanks for any help.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Celtic

Hi,

I've just tried to install sitemapXML, but I'm a little bit lost I think...

As per instructions document:

Install:
========
1. Unzip and upload all files to your store directory;
2. Go to Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and install install.sql.
3. Go to Admin->Configuration->Google Sitemap Configuration and setup all parameters
4. Go to Admin->Tools>Google XML Sitemap (If error messages occur, change permissions on the XML files to 777);

My questions:

1. Presumably I shouldn't be putting the install.sql and uninstal.sql into my store root folder should I?
2. This step went OK.
3. This was OK, except it is now called Sitemap XML in the menu.
4. THERE IS NO ADMIN>TOOLS>Sitemap XML option. Should I have a menu option here to click on???

I'm running zencart 1.3.9f with no other mods.

Now that it is presumably installed, how do I generate the sitemaps?

Thanks for any help.

---

Quote:

---

1. Presumably I shouldn't be putting the install.sql and uninstal.sql into my store root folder should I?

---

That is correct, you shouldn't have uploaded theses at all. You open up the install.sql statement and copy and paste it into you admin/tools/install_sql_patches. You then should have what you are missing under tools. If you get an error after trying to create a sitemap follow these instructions.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=447

Invalid URLs in the site map

I've installed simple seo url with link alias on. When I generate the sitemaps all my products URLs are generated as follows.

http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name1
http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name2
http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name3

etc


But the categories URLs are correct.

Have I done something wrong ? Can someone help me to fix this error.

Many Thanks

Hope this is an easy fix....a few other people had similar issues but couldn't find a reply that fixed them.

Whenever I try and generate my sitemaps from within admin, I get:

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapcategories.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapcategories.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapezpages.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Products Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapproducts.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapproducts.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapreviews.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Sitemap Index
Failed to open file "sitemapindex.xml"!!!
Total Execution Time 0:0.0140

All the files are CHMOD 777 - and have also experimented with 644.

The configuration group works fine.

If I click on one of the links in the report above I get:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapcategories.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

Obv I've change my site domain to [mysite] :-)

Been wandering the forums looking for a solution for the last 3 hours without success.

Also - the file googlesitemap.php.txt - should I be removing the .txt off the end? Nothing in the instructions about it. I tested doing that but no joy :-(

Thanks in advance!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by WhiskyFive

Hope this is an easy fix....a few other people had similar issues but couldn't find a reply that fixed them.

Whenever I try and generate my sitemaps from within admin, I get:

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapcategories.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapcategories.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapezpages.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Products Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapproducts.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapproducts.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml"!!!
File http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapreviews.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Sitemap Index
Failed to open file "sitemapindex.xml"!!!
Total Execution Time 0:0.0140

All the files are CHMOD 777 - and have also experimented with 644.

The configuration group works fine.

If I click on one of the links in the report above I get:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.[mysite].com/sitemapcategories.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

Obv I've change my site domain to [mysite] :-)

Been wandering the forums looking for a solution for the last 3 hours without success.

Also - the file googlesitemap.php.txt - should I be removing the .txt off the end? Nothing in the instructions about it. I tested doing that but no joy :-(

Thanks in advance!

---

Had the same problem a few days ago here's the fix:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=416

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by gaffettape

Had the same problem a few days ago here's the fix:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=416

---

Hi,

Thanks for the response, but I tried to follow the instructions and didn't have any joy.

In /includes/.htaccess there was no line with:


<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$">

(It also wasn't in /.htaccess)

The content was:

<Files *.php>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</Files>

I did put in the line below and test - but no joy:

<FilesMatch ".*\.(js|JS|css|CSS|jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF|xsl|XSL)$">


Was I looking in the wrong place?

What Zen Cart version are you using?

Zen 1.38

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by WhiskyFive

Zen 1.38

---

Ahh ok buddy, sorry but the fix I was talking relates to Zen Cart v1.3.9x (due to the introduction of .htaccess based safety measures throughout the various Zen Cart directories).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by countrycharm

That is correct, you shouldn't have uploaded theses at all. You open up the install.sql statement and copy and paste it into you admin/tools/install_sql_patches. You then should have what you are missing under tools. If you get an error after trying to create a sitemap follow these instructions.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=447

---

Thanks countrycharm, but what you've said here doesn't seem to be correct.

I have already copy and pasted the install.sql contents into the admin/tools/install_sql_patches section which then went ahead and created a menu entry under configuration/sitemap xml which lets me change the various settings.

What I don't have is any new menu items under the Tools menu to allow me to create sitemaps. I've taken a look through the sql statements in the install.sql file, and all that seems to do is create the menu entry under configuration/sitemap xml.

I'm not getting any errors when generating a sitemap as I don't have an option anywhere to generate one.

Any further help on this would be greatly appreciated.

C.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by countrycharm

That is correct, you shouldn't have uploaded theses at all. You open up the install.sql statement and copy and paste it into you admin/tools/install_sql_patches. You then should have what you are missing under tools. If you get an error after trying to create a sitemap follow these instructions.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=447

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Celtic

Thanks countrycharm, but what you've said here doesn't seem to be correct.

I have already copy and pasted the install.sql contents into the admin/tools/install_sql_patches section which then went ahead and created a menu entry under configuration/sitemap xml which lets me change the various settings.

What I don't have is any new menu items under the Tools menu to allow me to create sitemaps. I've taken a look through the sql statements in the install.sql file, and all that seems to do is create the menu entry under configuration/sitemap xml.

I'm not getting any errors when generating a sitemap as I don't have an option anywhere to generate one.

Any further help on this would be greatly appreciated.

C.

---

Couldn't edit my original post above so...

#EDIT#

I've just read this thread. As per standard security precautions I have of course renamed my own admin folder, and some of the sitemap files got dumped into the 'admin' folder not my renamed one.

Problem sorted, thanks.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Celtic

Couldn't edit my original post above (why only a 7 minute window????) so...

#EDIT#

I've just read this thread. As per standard security precautions I have of course renamed my own admin folder, and some of the sitemap files got dumped into the 'admin' folder not my renamed one.

Problem sorted, thanks.

---

Yes that happens sometime. Always a good idea to rename your admin folder for security reason, but never forget when adding on any add on change it to whatever your custom folder name is. Glade you got it worked out.

I hope this isn't a stupid question but for some reason sitemapxml used "&" instead of "&amp" on some of the links in my ezpages sitemap and google doesn't like it. All other sitemaps are working fine.

Using latest version of sitemap (just installed it a few days ago) and have Zen-Cart 1.3.9d

Any help you can offer on why it is doing this would be appreciated.

[edit] posting the contents of the sitemap below. It seems it is also leaving out a ";" which may actually be the larger issue.

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="includes/templates/premium6a/css/gss.xsl"?>
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<!-- generator="Zen-Cart SitemapXML" v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35 -->
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=59_77</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com//index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=59_60</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.88</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com//index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=59_66</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.75</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=78</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.63</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com//index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=59_62</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.50</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.completespray.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=171</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.38</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Never mind after some research seems this is just a bit of bad php code.

here is the link on how to fix it - I haven't tried it yet but I think this sounds correct.

http://www.w3.org/QA/2005/04/php-session

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

Does anyone know how to modify this mod to Use cPath in product info url? Thanks!

---

Well, I am still hoping someone knows how to fix this because for everyone using 1.3.9 this is a real issue.

With Zen Cart 1.3.9, it now generates a canonical url (which includes the cPath for all product). However the url that is generated by the sitemap does not include the cPath for the product url.

It will be nice to have a sitemap that is generating a consistent url to the one that we are passing to the search engines as the canonical url.

Thanks!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

Well, I am still hoping someone knows how to fix this because for everyone using 1.3.9 this is a real issue.

With Zen Cart 1.3.9, it now generates a canonical url (which includes the cPath for all product). However the url that is generated by the sitemap does not include the cPath for the product url.

It will be nice to have a sitemap that is generating a consistent url to the one that we are passing to the search engines as the canonical url.

Thanks!

---

Wow, I never even realised that before now... I hope someone can come up with a fix soon :mellow:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

Well, I am still hoping someone knows how to fix this because for everyone using 1.3.9 this is a real issue.

With Zen Cart 1.3.9, it now generates a canonical url (which includes the cPath for all product). However the url that is generated by the sitemap does not include the cPath for the product url.

It will be nice to have a sitemap that is generating a consistent url to the one that we are passing to the search engines as the canonical url.

Thanks!

---

Actually, on a second thought, I think the way this model is generating product url is the right way to go. Since a product can belong to multiple categories and can be moved from category to category it will make sense that the authoritative url is the format used by this mod not one that includes cPath.

I think the new canonical url support in Zen Cart 1.3.9 is really where the change needs to happen to generate canonical url for products that doesn't include cPath.

Here is the code that generates the product link:

PHP Code:

---

$link = zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($products->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $products->fields['products_id'] . $langParm, 'NONSSL', false); 


---

I need help modifying it to include cPath in the url generated.

Thanks!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlessIsaacola

Well, I am still hoping someone knows how to fix this because for everyone using 1.3.9 this is a real issue.

With Zen Cart 1.3.9, it now generates a canonical url (which includes the cPath for all product). However the url that is generated by the sitemap does not include the cPath for the product url.

It will be nice to have a sitemap that is generating a consistent url to the one that we are passing to the search engines as the canonical url.

Thanks!

---

its interesting issue

i found that in admin/configuration/SEO URLs there is :

Add cPath to product URLs?

i got it on false, and urls looks like :

http://www.vodeoo.com/sitemapproducts.xml

if i change seo to true it will add :

"This setting will append the cPath to the end of product URLs (i.e. - some-product-p-1.html?cPath=xx)."

is it any better for search engines, and for SEO in general?

ps.
i got ultimate seo url's installed.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mataleo

its interesting issue

i found that in admin/configuration/SEO URLs there is :

Add cPath to product URLs?

i got it on false, and urls looks like :

http://www.vodeoo.com/sitemapproducts.xml

if i change seo to true it will add :

"This setting will append the cPath to the end of product URLs (i.e. - some-product-p-1.html?cPath=xx)."

is it any better for search engines, and for SEO in general?

ps.
i got ultimate seo url's installed.

---

tested

not working,

sitemap not generateing cpath urls

switched it off

When vieiwng my sitemap index file http://www.familytraditionwreaths.com/sitemapindex.xml i get this error



Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:http://www.familytraditionwreaths.co....1/css/gss.xsl

Any ideas?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by CnTGifts

When vieiwng my sitemap index file http://www.familytraditionwreaths.com/sitemapindex.xml i get this error



Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:http://www.familytraditionwreaths.co....1/css/gss.xsl

Any ideas?

---

Try this:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=416

Fixed Thanks Alot

Hi I'm getting this error:
Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:

But I'm using 1.3.8a, so I don't have that code in my .htaccess file, any suggestions on how i can fix this.

Thanks

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by kezan98

Hi I'm getting this error:
Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:

But I'm using 1.3.8a, so I don't have that code in my .htaccess file, any suggestions on how i can fix this.

Thanks

---

Doesn't matter I've just realised it only seems to happen in firefox not IE and google hasn't a problem with my site maps.

Hi All,

My older version of the software stopped working a while back, so I tried installing the newer version. Getting closer , but it still doesn't work. :(

I have installed the new version of XML Sitemap on Zencart 1.3.8. I'm getting these errors when I try to generate the site map (see below). I have change permission coding and do not know what to try next. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapcategories.xml.gz"!!!
File http://www.tot2teenonline.com/sitemapcategories.xml.gz. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: bytes
Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml.gz"!!!
File http://www.tot2teenonline.com/sitemapezpages.xml.gz. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: bytes
Products Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapproducts.xml.gz"!!!
File http://www.tot2teenonline.com/sitemapproducts.xml.gz. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: bytes
Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml.gz"!!!
File http://www.tot2teenonline.com/sitemapreviews.xml.gz. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: bytes
Testimonials Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemaptestimonials.xml.gz"!!!
Sitemap Index
Failed to open file "sitemapindex.xml"!!!
Total Execution Time 0:0.0515

Tot 2 Teen,

As you are trying to create compressed xml files, maybe you only checked the permissions on the existing non-compressed ones?

You need to check that you have write access to your root folder too, or just create those files manually and set their access to allow updates.

Celtic.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by slomojojo

jbthomasfl,

They recently made a change to moreover. If you click on the link you just posted for moreover, it shows an error message that directs you to http://www.weblogs.com/api.html for more info. You'll have to manually update the link in Configuration > Sitemap XML > Ping urls with the change. I changed the link for moreover to this: http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=sitemap&url=%s

Not sure if that's right, but it didn't throw an error.

---

I'm thinking it's not correct. While they "Thank you for the ping"0". after submitting the sitemap via SitemapXML, their own feed validation complains that /sitemapindex.xml is not a valid syndication feed.
http://www.weblogs.com/feedvalidator.html

Bing is MSN and their URL for submitting is
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?
or input into Config>SiteMapXML>:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping?sitemap=%s;
Although I'm getting the dreaded cURL http:404 error, so that may not be the correctly written path to Bing.

Anybody else want to try?

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Originally Posted by jabbawest

I'm thinking it's not correct. While they "Thank you for the ping"0". after submitting the sitemap via SitemapXML, their own feed validation complains that /sitemapindex.xml is not a valid syndication feed.
http://www.weblogs.com/feedvalidator.html

Bing is MSN and their URL for submitting is
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?
or input into Config>SiteMapXML>:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping?sitemap=%s;
Although I'm getting the dreaded cURL http:404 error, so that may not be the correctly written path to Bing.

Anybody else want to try?

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This is the correct Bing address to submitting your site map
Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

This is the correct Bing address to submitting your site map
Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s

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Thank you countrycharm, I thought that would work but was following the other urls as a guide.
Is that it for sitemap submissions? Are there any minor players to submit them to?