SitemapXML v.2

Hi, I'm using ZC 1.3.8 with Ultimate SEO along side Sitemap XML. My sitemaps are not being generated with friendly URL's.

Please advise.

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
Nice.. thanks for the heads up!!!

Just an FYI. Paypal Payments Pro (along with Paypal Express Checkout) does not work with Ultimate SEO installed. I had to turn it off.

*Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR
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SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

I have spent hours reading through as many posts as I can and still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have Zen 1.3.8a and installed the sitemapxml v 2.1.0. I uploaded the files, then the first time, I ran the sql patch by uploading the file, but then I read that you have to copy and past the file using wordpad, then click send. I went to admin>config> and set the language file to false, I went to tools>sitemap xml> I then get this error
"The requested URL /admin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

My sitemap files in the root are empty. I have no idea what to do next. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

I tried putting my site into a different xml sitemap generator and it came back with zenids at the end of each path. However, I did not upload this file to my site, I only looked.

My site is located at www. c o o k i e t o p p e r s .com

I appreciate your help!

Hello,
My sitemapindex.xml is generated empty, all other XML files ar OK.
I also tried older version (Google Sitemap) no changes.

sitemapindex.xml -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl"?>
<sitemapindex 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/siteindex.xsd"
        xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<!-- generator="Zen-Cart SitemapXML" v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35 -->
</sitemapindex>

I have zen-cart running on other hosting where Google Sitemap is working perfectly.

Maybe somebody faced the same issue? Maybe there is special requirement for php or apache?

Good addition! - one thing .. you say that it supports hideCategories.. I'm just trying to figure out how I can hide a category from being picked up.. any pointers?

_thanks

I've installed Sitemap XML vs2 successfully previously and all was well.

I have now installed on a new zencart site and it works ok but there is no entry under configuration!!!!

any ideas what the problem could be?

Im going to install this sitemap on my PC's localhost, so i can test before installing on the live site.

Does this contribution automatically send off a sitemap to search engines when installed?...as I dont want google and others receiving sitemaps for my localhost site!?

or

does this contrib just make the sitemap itself and then to send off to the search engines you have to set up cron job?

Thanks :smile:

gaffettape:

as I dont want google and others receiving sitemaps for my localhost site!?
Obviously after testing you install on live site.
Yes, contib automates creation of sitemaps.
You can either submit from admin in two steps anytime or set up cron job.

Thanks for the reply ckosloff,

So just to confirm, I'm right in thinking this contrib does NOT send off any sitemaps automatically... I have to initiate the process... correct?

Thanks.

gaffettape:

Thanks for the reply ckosloff,

So just to confirm, I'm right in thinking this contrib does NOT send off any sitemaps automatically... I have to initiate the process... correct?

Thanks.
Yes.. there are two steps in this mod.

1. Create
2. Submit

Thanks for your answers guys :smile:

Still no answer about my problem from the 12th of November, anyone know please...

Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?site...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

Renz:

Still no answer about my problem from the 12th of November, anyone know please...

Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?site...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to https://www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

The answer to this was simple in the end, it's nothing I did and nothing broke, the server guys decided to block outgoing requests for security reasons, (IP Blocking in connections manager) I just wished they told clients...anyway put a tick in the allow and whammo!!!..:clap:

Can anyone shed any light on why a CRON job for Sitemaps is returning this message:

Everyting is installed correctly and Google is indexing the sitemaps. Everything except Yahoo seems to be working fine.

kennyb227:

I have spent hours reading through as many posts as I can and still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have Zen 1.3.8a and installed the sitemapxml v 2.1.0. I uploaded the files, then the first time, I ran the sql patch by uploading the file, but then I read that you have to copy and past the file using wordpad, then click send. I went to admin>config> and set the language file to false, I went to tools>sitemap xml> I then get this error
"The requested URL /admin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

My sitemap files in the root are empty. I have no idea what to do next. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

I tried putting my site into a different xml sitemap generator and it came back with zenids at the end of each path. However, I did not upload this file to my site, I only looked.

My site is located at www. c o o k i e t o p p e r s .com

I appreciate your help!

I have exactly the same problem. Did you find the answer to this?

Just installed. Didn't seem to have any problems and it looked like everything was going fine until I started playing around with the settings. It appears nothing is working in the configuration area. I've tried changing Lastmod tag format, Generate language_id for default language, and Category changefreq and none of them cause the xml files to be any different.

During each change I completely deleted the xml files as leaving them be would not cause them to be updated because nothing had changed.

1.3.8a zencart with SSU installed.

I guess I'll try looking at install.sql and the internal files for Sitemap and try to figure out why nothing is being picked up.

Anthony

llynix:

I guess I'll try looking at install.sql and the internal files for Sitemap and try to figure out why nothing is being picked up.

Well I think I got it licked. I thought perhaps I'd try uninstalling / installing the .sql again and see if that helped. But instead of using Zen Carts internal SQL patcher I used good ole phpmyadmin.

Got an error.. none of the tables were right since my cart uses a db prefix. So I fixed this in the SQL and the uninstall went through.

Fixing this for the install.sql seemed to do the trick. It installed just fine.

One note however. If you generate a sitemap, then change a configuration, manually delete that sitemap before you generate a new one. Otherwise the old one stays around because there was nothing to update.

Anthony

hi, I was going through the sitemap, and it has
http://www.ecigexpress.com/shop/elec...-2/language/en

I would like for it not to have the /language/en there -

How can I get rid of the /language/en ?