My website’s sitemap is getting generated from IP address of my website

@anshua1 i think thats a server problem.. a wrong code in httacces file… not the plugin!

@onestatero Thanks for your reply. Request if you could provide guidance on the nature of fix required in the htaccess file. Thanks.

@anshua1 something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^12\.34\.56\.789/$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domainname.com/$1 [L,R=301]

ask yout host to do it!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Wp Antonio.com.

Hey Antonio – I am hosting my own site on AWS and I having the same issue. Question: Is there any danger to using your code? Can it mess with SEO? Is there a chance it will break the site?

Currently I have this:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

So I just replace with your code (of course using my IP and URL…)? Thanks.

@squasha thats basic wordpress httacces code.. you cant modify that! its basic! code provided above is another rule in httacces .

Thanks for the reply Antonio. I am definitely not a developer so this is pretty new to me.

Ok, so don’t replace the basic code. So I just add you code after it? For example, today it looks like this:

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

So now I just want to change it to:

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

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^MY.IP.ADDRESS/$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Is it that easy? Just add your block of code after the basic code? No other wrapper or anything?

Thanks!

@squasha put it above wp basic code!

Apologies, I’m just not familiar with the syntax of this code. I see much of the code has a “<IfModule” wrapper. Does you code need that too? Or can I put it within the <IfModule wrapper that is at the beginning of the basic WP code? Like this?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^MY.IP.ADDRESS/$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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

Hello!

The IfModule-wrapper is there to prevent errors. It’s ‘best practice’ but not necessary.

What you have there looks good. You may want to lock the file; see the article below — there’s a part about .htaccess too.

Changing File Permissions