SitemapXML v.2

Hi a_berezin. It is :

http : // thephotosite.com

Just to add, I have submitted my sitemap to Bing webmaster tools, and they don't see to give any warnings, or note any problems.

Zarathustra:

Hi a_berezin. It is :

http : // thephotosite.com

Just to add, I have submitted my sitemap to Bing webmaster tools, and they don't see to give any warnings, or note any problems.
Google is right - you disallow for indexing the entire site:
thephotosite.com/robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Thanks for the reply. That was my robots.txt during one of my tests to see if any changes would make a difference, but whether I simply allow everything, disallow specific folders, or remove the robots.txt altogether, I keep getting this message from Google. It may be I have to wait 24 hours for the robots.txt to refresh, but if I check 'health' and 'blocked urls' it says robots.txt has never been downloaded by Google, so it shouldn't really be taking any effect at all.

Zarathustra:

Thanks for the reply. That was my robots.txt during one of my tests to see if any changes would make a difference, but whether I simply allow everything, disallow specific folders, or remove the robots.txt altogether, I keep getting this message from Google. It may be I have to wait 24 hours for the robots.txt to refresh, but if I check 'health' and 'blocked urls' it says robots.txt has never been downloaded by Google, so it shouldn't really be taking any effect at all.

When you're done your exercises and games with robots.txt - and then you can discuss anything. And until enough of - it makes no sense.

found 2 new warnings, could you please help me fix it? thanks a lot

 PHP Warning:  filesize() [<a href='function.filesize'>function.filesize</a>]: stat failed for /public_html/sitemap/sitemap.xml in /public_html/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 594
 PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(/public_html/sitemap/sitemap.xml) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 596

I have poured over this forum trying to figure out why my install won't work. I'm running version 1.5.0. These are the exact steps I followed:

1. Unzipped SitemapXML On Local Drive
2. Changed Admin File To Match
3. Uploaded all the files inside of SitemapXML(not the folder itself) to the root
4. Changed permissions to 777
5. Ran the SQL patch on admin side

... and this is where I'm at. It doesn't show up under tools. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hi,

boomup:

found 2 new warnings, could you please help me fix it? thanks a lot

PHP Warning: filesize() [<a href='function.filesize'>function.filesize</a>]: stat failed for /public_html/sitemap/sitemap.xml in /public_html/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 594
PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/public_html/sitemap/sitemap.xml) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 596

includes/classes/sitemapxml.php
Lines 594-596
```php
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($this->savepath . $this->sitemapindex));
//    header('Content-disposition: inline; filename=' . $this->sitemapindex);
    echo file_get_contents($this->savepath . $this->sitemapindex);

replace by

    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($this->savepathIndex . $this->sitemapindex));
    echo file_get_contents($this->savepathIndex . $this->sitemapindex);

Hello

Thank you for this excellent mod. I have SEO friendly URLS in my shop. Is this Sitemap tool suitable for my needs.

Thanks
Regards
Renz

When I add my sitemap to my webmaster tools as sitemap.xml, I get this error: Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead. These are the pages that was built: sitemapindex.xml
sitemapcategories.xml
sitemapezpages.xml
sitemapmainpage.xml
sitemapmanufacturers.xml
sitemapproducts.xml
sitemapreviews.xml

weezee:

When I add my sitemap to my webmaster tools as sitemap.xml
...
These are the pages that was built: sitemapindex.xml
Where is the logic?
What you see in the admin, Tools->SitemapXML "Submit your Sitemap"?

Hi a_berezin,

just installed SitemapXML on my ZenCart v1.3.9h, with no problem (beside not being able to apply instruction point N. 08 as still to be updated, but found the solution on the thread). Great addon !!!

I've searched around and I've not found someone with my similar need and a possible reply.

I would like to avoid creating a MANUFACTURER sitemap xml file.

Is there any way doing this ?

I already have this specified within robots.txt, but I would really prefer not even to create the file, if possible.

Is there any portion to comment out ?

I think I found the solution (but a formal confirmation would be nice...)...

I took /includes/modules/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_manufacturers.php file and just removed lines between 20 and 46... (obviously I kept a safe copy of the original file...).

This way it seems that the file is parsed, but since there are no "building instructions" inside, the generation does not happen and there is no error message...

mickymix:

just installed SitemapXML on my ZenCart v1.3.9h, with no problem (beside not being able to apply instruction point N. 08 as still to be updated, but found the solution on the thread).
What exactly caused difficulties in paragraph 8?
mickymix:

I've searched around and I've not found someone with my similar need and a possible reply.

I would like to avoid creating a MANUFACTURER sitemap xml file.
Delete /includes/modules/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_manufacturers.php

And of course do not forget to delete the file sitemapmanufacturers.xml

a_berezin:

What exactly caused difficulties in paragraph 8?

"8. Go to Admin -> Tools -> Google XML Sitemap (If error messages occur, change permissions on the XML files to 777)."

No "Google XML Sitemap" label...
No error entering "Sitemap XML" label...

Thought of having lost a piece somewhere, but then saw a one month old message on the support thread and understood...

Please note I downloaded the addon last week, so I guess the README still contains the error...

:-)

Hi.

I just installed the Sitemap XML v.2 module. I think everything is fine, but the "sitemap.xml" in the root folder is empty. With other websites I've designed, this is usually full, or has something in it. I would think that this file in the rootfolder would have code that points to the xml files in the in the "sitemap" folder? There's is no document tree or code that points to these other xml files.

Let me know if this is OK.

Thank you.

Hi All,

I am a bit confused by this instruction:
"You can specify the location of the Sitemap using a robots.txt file. To do this, simply add the following line:
Sitemap: http://<your_shop_url>/sitemapindex.xml
This directive is independent of the user-agent line, so it doesn't matter where you place it in your file.
If you have a Sitemap index file, you can include the location of just that file. You don't need to list
each individual Sitemap listed in the index file"
This url points to my site's site map and not the index of the sitemaps (sitemap.xml) which I think is what we need to give to Google, right?
Thanks
Regards
Renz

Renz:

I am a bit confused by this instruction:
"You can specify the location of the Sitemap using a robots.txt file. To do this, simply add the following line:
Sitemap: http://<your_shop_url>/sitemapindex.xml
This directive is independent of the user-agent line, so it doesn't matter where you place it in your file.
If you have a Sitemap index file, you can include the location of just that file. You don't need to list
each individual Sitemap listed in the index file"
This url points to my site's site map and not the index of the sitemaps (sitemap.xml) which I think is what we need to give to Google, right?
Ignore this instruction.

Hello,

I installed XMLSitemap in a multilingual environment how ever i only see English results in Google.

Here is the window when i force rebuild sitemap, is everything ok?

HEADING_TITLE

TEXT_HEAD_CATEGORIES

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_TOTAL_SITEMAP
TEXT_HEAD_EZPAGES

TEXT_ERRROR_EZPAGES_OUTOFBASE
TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_TOTAL_SITEMAP
TEXT_HEAD_MAINPAGE

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_TOTAL_SITEMAP
TEXT_HEAD_MANUFACTURERS

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_HEAD_PRODUCTS

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_TOTAL_SITEMAP
TEXT_HEAD_REVIEWS

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_HEAD_TESTIMONIALS

TEXT_FILE_SITEMAP_INFO
TEXT_TOTAL_SITEMAP
TEXT_HEAD_SITEMAP_INDEX

TEXT_INCLUDE_FILE/home/chec1650/public_html/sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml (http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml)
TEXT_INCLUDE_FILE/home/chec1650/public_html/sitemap/sitemapezpages.xml (http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemapezpages.xml)
TEXT_INCLUDE_FILE/home/chec1650/public_html/sitemap/sitemapmainpage.xml (http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemapmainpage.xml)
TEXT_INCLUDE_FILE/home/chec1650/public_html/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml (http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml)
TEXT_INCLUDE_FILE/home/chec1650/public_html/sitemap/sitemaptestimonials.xml (http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemaptestimonials.xml)
TEXT_URL_FILEhttp://chequesplus.com/sitemap.xml
TEXT_WRITTEN

TEXT_HEAD_PING

TEXT_HEAD_PING Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fchequesplus.com%2Fsitemap%2Fsitemap.xml
Sitemap Notification Received

Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ so you can track its status. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.
TEXT_HEAD_PING Ask.com

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fchequesplus.com%2Fsitemap%2Fsitemap.xml
TEXT_ERROR_CURL_EXEC
TEXT_HEAD_PING Bing

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fchequesplus.com%2Fsitemap%2Fsitemap.xml
Thanks for submitting your sitemap.
TEXT_EXECUTION_TIME

ShopVille:

I installed XMLSitemap in a multilingual environment how ever i only see English results in Google.
In XML provides links to products in two languages - http://chequesplus.com/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml
ShopVille:

Here is the window when i force rebuild sitemap, is everything ok?

HEADING_TITLE
...

No SitemapXML language files for your language.