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14 Jan 2010, 1:53 PM
#301
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SitemapXML v.2

Martot:

A few random questions on this mod:

  1. Should you really leave the permissions set to 777 on the .xml files in the root directory of your site? I've set mine back to 644, but I'm guessing this willl prevent sitemap from updating with the cron job.

  2. Google returns that my sitemap contains no urls. Why? I've installed as per the instructions, renamed the googlesitemap.php.txt file, and run "step 1 and 2" from within the site admin.

  3. Are the default settings as installed ok for most sites?

  4. Testimonials??? Does Zencart have this function, or am I being really thick?

Running 1.3.8a, and sitemapxml 2.1.0.

www.sole-sisters.co.uk

Right, problem 2) may have been casued by the permissions problem in 1). I temporarily set them back to 777 and webmaster now has all the urls, (but not indexed - I'm guessing this takes time?)

Is there any way around having permenant 777 access to these files. Surely this can't be safe?

14 Jan 2010, 4:12 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Martot:

A few random questions on this mod:

  1. Should you really leave the permissions set to 777 on the .xml files in the root directory of your site? I've set mine back to 644, but I'm guessing this willl prevent sitemap from updating with the cron job.

  2. Google returns that my sitemap contains no urls. Why? I've installed as per the instructions, renamed the googlesitemap.php.txt file, and run "step 1 and 2" from within the site admin.

  3. Are the default settings as installed ok for most sites?

  4. Testimonials??? Does Zencart have this function, or am I being really thick?

Running 1.3.8a, and sitemapxml 2.1.0.

www.sole-sisters.co.uk

  1. Testimonials???
    This is a add on you can download here
17 Jan 2010, 7:22 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

My ZenCart is versioin 1.3.8a and have sitemap version 1.3.19.

I am seeing alerts within my Google Webmaster tools for both my ZenCart categories and products XML's. They read....

"URLs unreachable
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All reachable URLs will still be submitted".

"Details" show a 500 type error. I checked under Google Webmaster/Site Owners Help, but not seeing anything related to my alert/error there.

The only thing I thought might help was to hit the "resumbit" sitemap.

That did not work....

Also... hate to confuse the issue... But...

The ZenCart is a subdomain to my .com . Everything looks perfect within Google Webmaster tools for that .com sitemap.

Although I wonder if there is an issue connected somehow.. A site called Ganoksin is no longer able to auto add to that sites blog from my .com blog like they use too... They say it is a sitemap problem.

Is it possible that if the subdomain is having XML issues that it would effect the root site ?

19 Jan 2010, 12:26 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Still kind of hoping someone might know something about the previous post..

Any takers ? :blush:

19 Jan 2010, 7:40 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

I believe I've searched the entire thread for an answer, but I could have missed it somewhere :unsure:

I am using several "Editable Sidebox"s. All of the links in them are for EZ pages, which wouldn't be a problem with your EZPage fix except....I've had to disable the "header", "footer" and "sidebox" ordering in order for the links to show up only in my own sideboxes.

I finally figured out that in order to get the Sitemap to read the EZPages, I had to enable them for just a second while I generated the map. But then I disabled them again.

My question is: will this affect how Google indexes them?? Or does the Sitemap just record the address ("/index.php?main_page=page&id=12" for example") without regard to whether they're "active" in the original zencart framework??

I suppose I could wait until Google indexes my site next to see what happens, but who know when that will be :rolleyes:

If anyone has an idea, or a workaround, I'd love to hear it!!

Thank you so much for all the work you've done in writing this add-on!

19 Jan 2010, 12:45 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

taogem:

My ZenCart is versioin 1.3.8a and have sitemap version 1.3.19.

I am seeing alerts within my Google Webmaster tools for both my ZenCart categories and products XML's. They read....

"URLs unreachable
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All reachable URLs will still be submitted".

"Details" show a 500 type error. I checked under Google Webmaster/Site Owners Help, but not seeing anything related to my alert/error there.

taogem:

Still kind of hoping someone might know something about the previous post..

Any takers ? :blush:

Not saying this is the answer or I can offer any further suggestions but perhaps it's a permissions problem - check that the sitemap files can be accessed and they are as the mod installation instructions advise..

19 Jan 2010, 4:17 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

taogem:

My ZenCart is versioin 1.3.8a and have sitemap version 1.3.19.

I am seeing alerts within my Google Webmaster tools for both my ZenCart categories and products XML's. They read....

"URLs unreachable
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All reachable URLs will still be submitted".

"Details" show a 500 type error. I checked under Google Webmaster/Site Owners Help, but not seeing anything related to my alert/error there.

The only thing I thought might help was to hit the "resumbit" sitemap.

That did not work....

Also... hate to confuse the issue... But...

The ZenCart is a subdomain to my .com . Everything looks perfect within Google Webmaster tools for that .com sitemap.

Although I wonder if there is an issue connected somehow.. A site called Ganoksin is no longer able to auto add to that sites blog from my .com blog like they use too... They say it is a sitemap problem.

Is it possible that if the subdomain is having XML issues that it would effect the root site ?

I had this problem with SSU installed - I reset the caches, made sure all the folders were there, made sure the permissions were all 777 - then checked my .htaccess.

I had a bad rewrite in the .htaccess and removing it fixed the problem.

20 Jan 2010, 1:46 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Bobthemolder,

I received a response today from my hosting company:

"I see that you have a wordpress related script placed in your htaccess file, i think you may need to look at this part as .htaccess modification is known to cause problems with the google indexing."

Problem is that....

I am seeing several htaccess files. None are coming up under the Wordpress (.com) blog, but within the ZenCart subdomain.

I am looking but not able to tell which script they are seeing.

Waiting for a response from them in hopes they can tell me which of these files and maybe even show me the exact script they suspect.

Some of these for what ever reason return a "no record found" when I try to open them up. Yet they pop up after doing a htaccess search from the control panel.

/public_html/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/images/uploads/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/googlecheckout/logs/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/modules/payment/linkpoint_api/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/classes/support/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/cache/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/pub/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/extras/htaccess_for_page_not_found_redirects.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/editors/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/admin/htaccess.php
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/admin/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/admin/includes/.htaccess
/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/download/.htaccess

Any way.... Your experience with having a bad rewrite in your htacess seems like it is going to turn out to be a similar fix for me..

Hopefully will hear back from them soon ..

**Thanks to you and g_force too for responding ** :smile:

20 Jan 2010, 3:47 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

AFAIK, you can only have 1 .htaccess

Sometimes multiple will get created when you make backups, but you should find the right/active one and delete the rest.

Wordpress shouldn't be doing anything to your .htaccess unless it's in the same directory.

20 Jan 2010, 5:55 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Hi,

recently I changed my shop to have 2 separate domains for 2 languages by copying my installation and uploading the copy to an addon domain directory. The sitemapXML has already been installed before that separation.

The problem is that the urls in the sitemap of my addon domain are the urls of my root domain. Eg. in my https://www.mydomain.com/sitemapezpages.xml. there are only https://www.myaddondomain.com Urls.

Has anybody an idea how to fix or am I supposed to reinstall the sitemapXML?

22 Jan 2010, 5:38 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

bobthemolder:

AFAIK, you can only have 1 .htaccess

Sometimes multiple will get created when you make backups, but you should find the right/active one and delete the rest.

Wordpress shouldn't be doing anything to your .htaccess unless it's in the same directory.

Got a note back from host.

They pointed out some Wordpress text within the /public_html/.htaccess so I removed that text and left the script.

If we are only suppose to have one htaccess file, then any idea what all these others are, and if they are necessary..

Is having so many likely causing the problem ? Does Google get confused ? :blink:

/public_html/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule>

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/images/uploads

$Id: .htaccess 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $

This is used with Apache WebServers

The following blocks direct HTTP requests in this directory recursively

For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Limit' to the AllowOverride configuration

Example:

#<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

AllowOverride Limit

'All' with also work. (This configuration is in your apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

This does not affect PHP include/require functions

Example: http://server/catalog/includes/application_top.php will not work

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

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/googlecheckout/logs/.htaccess

$Id: .htaccess 2856 2007-06-08 00:42:19Z Ropu $

This is used with Apache WebServers

The following blocks direct HTTP requests in this directory recursively

This will prevent access to logs from the web

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

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/.htaccess

$Id: .htaccess 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $

This is used with Apache WebServers

The following blocks direct HTTP requests in this directory recursively

For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Limit' to the AllowOverride configuration

Example:

#<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

AllowOverride Limit

'All' with also work. (This configuration is in your apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

This does not affect PHP include/require functions

Example: http://server/catalog/includes/application_top.php will not work

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

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/modules/payment/linkpoint_api/.htaccess

Prevent unauthorized access to your private .PEM file

<Files ~ ".(pem)$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

/home/taogemst/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/includes/classes/support/.htaccess

$Id: .htaccess 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $

This is used with Apache WebServers

The following blocks direct HTTP requests in this directory recursively

For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Limit' to the AllowOverride configuration

Example:

#<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

AllowOverride Limit

'All' with also work. (This configuration is in your apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

This does not affect PHP include/require functions

Example: http://server/catalog/includes/application_top.php will not work

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

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/cache/.htaccess

#prevent directory browsing -- for security
IndexIgnore /
<Limit GET POST PUT>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Limit>

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/pub/.htaccess

#prevent directory browsing -- for security
IndexIgnore /
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/extras/htaccess_for_page_not_found_redirects.htaccess

replace https://www.MYSITE.COM with your website address.

be sure to add any extra paths required to locate the index.php

then relocate this file to the root of your store's folders, and rename it as .htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.MYSITE.COM/index.php?main_page=page_not_found

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/editors/.htaccess

#prevent directory browsing -- for security
IndexIgnore /

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/admin/htaccess.php

$Id: .htaccess 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $

This is used with Apache WebServers

For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to

the AllowOverride configuration

Example:

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

AllowOverride Options

</Directory>

'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the

apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet

Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c> <IfDefine SSL> SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 </IfDefine> </IfModule> # Fix certain PHP values #<IfModule mod_php4.c> # php_value session.use_trans_sid 0 # php_value register_globals 1 #</IfModule> # to turn off register_globals # php_value register_globals 0

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/admin/includes/.htaccess

$Id: .htaccess 2996 2006-02-09 00:42:17Z drbyte $

This is used with Apache WebServers

The following blocks direct HTTP requests in this directory recursively

This does not affect PHP include/require functions

Example: direct access to http://server/admin/includes/application_top.php will not work with the following installed

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

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/download/.htaccess

#prevent directory browsing -- for security
IndexIgnore /
AuthType Basic
AuthName "No access"
AuthUserFile .htnopasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
Require valid-user

24 Jan 2010, 12:44 AM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

bobthemolder:

AFAIK, you can only have 1 .htaccess

Sometimes multiple will get created when you make backups, but you should find the right/active one and delete the rest.

Wordpress shouldn't be doing anything to your .htaccess unless it's in the same directory.

Ok... I have deleted all the htaccess files except for the /public_html/.htaccess

Sitemaps are back to normal..

I had hoped that by fixing this that my items might start to show up within Google Products, but not ..... !

Any hooo.. Thank you :smile:

24 Jan 2010, 12:25 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Is anyone getting their titles duplicated in google searches? It's just happening for the products so I can't tell if it is because of this mod or the 'google base' mod.

To clarify; for example if you search 'zen cart' and get this result -

Zen Cart(tm) Tutorials and FAQs
Where to find the Zen Cart switches and controls. How to set up categories and products, using the other features of Zen Cart. ...
www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/ - Cached - Similar

mine would be:

Zen Cart(tm) Tutorials and FAQs Zen Cart(tm) Tutorials and FAQs
Where to find the Zen Cart switches and controls. How to set up categories and products, using the other features of Zen Cart. ...
www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/ - Cached - Similar

If anyone has experience of this problem or feels that they can suggest a fix please do.

_thanks

24 Jan 2010, 2:57 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

g_force:

Is anyone getting their titles duplicated in google searches? It's just happening for the products so I can't tell if it is because of this mod or the 'google base' mod.

To clarify; for example if you search 'zen cart' and get this result -

mine would be:

If anyone has experience of this problem or feels that they can suggest a fix please do.

_thanks

I am not seeing this.. But..

Something very odd.. When I coppied a clickable link for a product title within my Zencart and then pasted it into Google to search, it would paste double.

No longer doing it now..

24 Jan 2010, 7:19 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

*I've just tried to install this mod. SQL patch ran fine, no errors. I am seeing the link to Admin/Configuration/Sitemap XML, but I don't have a link to Admin/Tools/Google XML Sitemap as described in the readme.txt.

Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm running the latest version of Zen Cart (v1.3.8a/v1.3.8) and downloaded latest version of SitemapXML (2.1.0)*

26 Jan 2010, 7:26 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Has anyone added the manufacturers to the sitemap? If so would you be willing to share the addon? Thanks

28 Jan 2010, 6:25 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

Originally Posted by g_force View Post
Is anyone getting their titles duplicated in google searches? It's just happening for the products so I can't tell if it is because of this mod or the 'google base' mod.

To clarify; for example if you search 'zen cart' and get this result -

mine would be:

If anyone has experience of this problem or feels that they can suggest a fix please do.

_thanks

taogem:

I am not seeing this.. But..

Something very odd.. When I coppied a clickable link for a product title within my Zencart and then pasted it into Google to search, it would paste double.

No longer doing it now..

anyone else then??

_thanks

28 Jan 2010, 10:43 PM
#319
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

This one has me stumped.
The remote server's sitemapcategories.xml does not have <lastmod></lastmod> tags.

LOCAL:
Mapped distribution files to local site folders; ran sql patch.
Changed product sort order in config.
Changed category changefreq to monthly.
Everything is fine.

REMOTE:
Mapped local site to remote server; ran remote sql patch.
Changed product sort order in config.
Changed category changefreq to monthly.
Everything LOOKED fine.

But, one report (1 out of 4) has a problem.
The remote server's sitemapcategories.xml does not have <lastmod></lastmod> tags.

The remote server's sitemapproducts.xml has <lastmod></lastmod> tags and data.
The local server's sitemapproducts.xml AND sitemapcategories.xml have <lastmod></lastmod> tags and data.

The local and remote categories tables are identical; confirmed by comparing sql dumps.

Why would the same programs produce, on the remote server, last modified date info for products, but not categories?
Why would the same categories tables have last modified data in local sitemapcategories.xml report but not on the remote report?

It isn't logical. :bangin:
Could there be something buried in the code?

Juxi

30 Jan 2010, 10:11 PM
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Re: SitemapXML v.2

JuxiZoza:

The remote server's sitemapcategories.xml does not have <lastmod></lastmod> tags.
Hey Juxi, long time no see.
I do have those tags in my remote sitemapcategories.xml.
So check all you know what to check: corrupt files, etc.