Where is sitemap located?

This is a good question.

If my memory serves me, the sitemap generated by this plugin used to be visible as sitemap.xml in the root of the WP website folder. It doesn’t seem to be there anymore, or anywhere for that matter.

This is causing me a great deal of confusion, because I’m trying to follow these instructions:
Move your sitemap to your domain root

And it doesn’t seem to be changing the way I would expect or it’s not changing at all.

I’m not sure if it’s suppose to be like this, but the sitemap.xml is actually located in the root of my website, I just can’t see it.

Url.com/sitemap.xml works just fine. But why can’t I see it?

>>Url.com/sitemap.xml works just fine. But why can’t I see it?<<

I have exactly the same problem – if I cannot see it in my File Manager, how do I know that Google can see it as well?

I imagine the sitemap.xml file is being generated on-the-fly by the WordPress plugin. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

pesiunwalla: you will know if Google can see it if the file is listed in your site’s robots.txt file and the given URL for the sitemap works in your web browser.

I have the same problem. I don’t see a sitemap.xml anywhere in the root directory, nor do I see anywhere in the plugin settings to create one.

The plug-in docs say the sitemap is automatically generated… when? where?

Can someone answer this question please. It seems there are a lot of people confused by this. Thank you

From the plugin changelog

New in Version 4.0 (2014-03-30):
No static files anymore, sitemap is created on the fly!
Sitemap is split-up into sub-sitemaps by month, allowing up to 50.000 posts per month! More information
Support for custom post types and custom taxonomis!
100% Multisite compatible, including by-blog and network activation.
Reduced server resource usage due to less content per request.
New API allows other plugins to add their own, separate sitemaps.
Note: PHP 5.1 and WordPress 3.3 is required! The plugin will not work with lower versions!
Note: This version will try to rename your old sitemap files to *-old.xml. If that doesn’t work, please delete them manually since no static files are needed anymore!

See also: forum article Google XML Sitemaps Delete sitemap.xml?

It would appear this done because “the new version 4 of the plugin does not use static files anymore, but generates them on-the-fly like all the other WordPress content.”