How can I allow googlebot to crawl my sitemap? .htaccess

  • So I want google to be able to crawl my sitemap but I don’t want other people to be able to see or view my sitemap, here’s my current code

    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “Googlebot” goodbot

    <Files “sitemap_index.xml”>
    deny from all
    Allow from env=goodbot
    </Files>

    Currently this is giving a 403 forbidden error on google search console when I try to submit sitemap.

    Also. I would like to change my sitemap URL so I can keep it hidden; how can I do this?

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