Google SitemapAdmin

[ARRSE]

Thanks a lot for the latest addition to this excellent mod.

I've just taken the opportunity to relocate my xml files to a sub folder and have discovered that this piece of functionality doesn't appear to work 100%. Although the xml files are generated in the sub folder, the URLs in sitemapindex.xml don't contain the sub folder, i.e they continue to point to sitemaps in the root folder.

This isn't a huge issue as I've just moved them back to root but I thought you'd like to know!.

[Woodymon]

Thanks a lot for the latest addition to this excellent mod.

I've just taken the opportunity to relocate my xml files to a sub folder and have discovered that this piece of functionality doesn't appear to work 100%. Although the xml files are generated in the sub folder, the URLs in sitemapindex.xml don't contain the sub folder, i.e they continue to point to sitemaps in the root folder.

This isn't a huge issue as I've just moved them back to root but I thought you'd like to know!.

Andrew whom developed this mod and latest updates is no longer around these parts.

You can change where you write the four xml files in the mods Configuration menu.

The module utilizes paths set in your ZC configure.php files, which indicate the root of your shop (usually different from your webroot).

There should be no reason to move the xml files into a child directory of your shop root, if that is what you have done.

If you are running your shop on a add-on or sub-domain that may be contributing to your issue.

Woody

[ARRSE]

Woodymon,
Thanks for your reply and I wasn't aware that Andrew had moved on.

The point I was trying to make is that the setting in the Configuration menu doesn't work. Lets say you set it to write to a subdirectory of feed and your main site install is in /www/ on your system.

The module will quite happily create the 4 xml files in /www/feed but when you open /www/feed/sitemapindex.html you will find that it points to http://yoururl.com/sitemapproducts.xml not http://yoururl.com/feed/sitemapproducts.xml, etc.

As I say I have just moved my sitemaps back to my root folder and it is fine. I thought I'd report this issue just in case anyone else was having the same difficulty.

[Woodymon]

Woodymon,
Thanks for your reply and I wasn't aware that Andrew had moved on.

The point I was trying to make is that the setting in the Configuration menu doesn't work. Lets say you set it to write to a subdirectory of feed and your main site install is in /www/ on your system.

The module will quite happily create the 4 xml files in /www/feed but when you open /www/feed/sitemapindex.html you will find that it points to http://yoururl.com/sitemapproducts.xml not http://yoururl.com/feed/sitemapproducts.xml, etc.

As I say I have just moved my sitemaps back to my root folder and it is fine. I thought I'd report this issue just in case anyone else was having the same difficulty.

Using the latest mod version I can place the sitemap in whichever directory I please as long as it is in the path of the shop.

You have to use the full absolute path in the configuration
e.g. /home/account_name/public_html/
(the ending forward slash is important)

If your shop is in /home/account_name/public_html/shop/
then you cannot write the feed to
/home/account_name/public_html/feed/
since it is not in the path of your shop.

But you could put the feed into
/home/account_name/public_html/shop/feed/
or
/home/account_name/public_html/shop/
or
/home/account_name/public_html/

See your configure.php file for the proper path.

Hope this makes sense.

Woody

[Woodymon]

Argh. After a second look I did miss your point and now see what you were stating.

I do not believe previous mod versions had this same issue.

I suspect standard sitemap protocol states you should place your sitemap files in your webroot. Thus this may be the reason why child directories are no longer included in the directory paths to the other three sitemap files within the sitemapindex file. This is confusing and worth investigating. Thanks for the heads up.

At any rate be sure to add the "Sitemap" entry in your robots.txt file
e.g.
Sitemap: http://www.your_domain.com/sitemapindex.xml

Woody

[blag]

Gulp!

I have just updated to the latest version in the downloads section, and have encountered the following error when I try to open the Google XML Sitemap under the Tools Menu (in Admin):

Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.13 14.08.2007 10:32) started

Save path - "/xxxx/yyyy/public_html/store/"
Base URL - "http://hohose.exphoster.com/store/"


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: zen_get_info_page() in /xxxx/yyyy/public_html/store/admin/googlesitemap.php on line 279

(xxxx and yyyy used for security purposes)

I have previously been able to generate the relevant XML files without problems, and I have set the XML files' permissions to '777'

Can anyone please, please be so kind as to give me some guidance as to how to overcome this problem?

[drex]

error with google and robots.txt file.... this is aggravating.

google states this:

"Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable "

therefore, it won't index the site.

the problem is that it is listed and indexed correctly:

tampabayuniforms.com/robots.txt

it is clearly there to index the site.

the xml files are also there:

http://tampabayuniforms.com/sitemapindex.xml

and all the listings are congruent (no www. either in the files or the robot files or the listing.)

I give up.

any help is appreciated.

thanks!

[dbabbage]

When I create the sitemap I get messages telling me that four pages have been successfully created. However, when I try to view the sitemapezpages.xml, I get the following error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: (the URL location)
Line Number 8, Column 49: <loc>http://siteurl.com/page.html?chapter=1&id=1</loc>

I have figured out why I am getting this error. It is because the plugin is not writing the & characters in the URLs to &amp; in the sitemap. Because I am using SEO urls for all other pages, this is only happening on the EZPages sitemap (since I haven't been able to figure out how to have these re-written by the SEO plugin... any leads on that?)

Anyone know how to fix this?

[Stuff4Toys]

Zen-Cart 1.3.7.?
3 installs
2 went great on Linux servers
1 only 1/2 works on NT and wamp 5 1.7.2

The googlesitemap.php in the root dir works fine from the command line
http://www.stuff4toys.com/googlesitemap.php?ping=yes
works great.

From the admin I get:

Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.13 14.08.2007 10:32) started

Save path - "e:/www/"
Base URL - "http://www.stuff4toys.com/"


Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_get_info_page() in E:\www\admin_folder\includes\languages\english\googlesitemap.php on line 298

help?
JOhn ><>

[a_berezin]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_get_info_page() in E:\www\admin_folder\includes\languages\english\goo glesitemap.php on line 298

admin_folder\includes\languages\english\goo glesitemap.php don't use zen_get_info_page() function has no 298 lines.

Reinstall.