XML Sitemaps gives error 404 page

Hi veggiesdontbite,

First please confirm the basics, in the plugin settings go to ‘XML Sitemaps’ and check the setting at the top “Check this box to enable XML sitemap functionality.” has a tick in the box next to it.

Then you should see the “You can find your XML Sitemap here:” button. Click this and it should take to you the sitemap_index.xml

You should also be able to see your site maps at the following by replacing ‘www.yourdomain.com’ with your doamin :

https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml

https://www.yourdomain.com/page-sitemap.xml

If that is still reporting a 404 let me know.

All the best

Ramps

I’m experiencing the same issue. I’ve enabled XML Sitemaps. Clicked on the “XML Sitemap” button and tried to see if I could access it via the links above (replaced with my domain) and I’m still receiving a 404. I’ve read through this article XML Sitemap in the WordPress SEO plugin and I haven’t installed a caching plugin yet, so that’s not what’s interfering with it.

Simple fix. I unchecked the “enable XML sitemap functionality” check-box and saved settings. Then re checked the box, saved settings and now the sitemap loads.

Hi!
I recently tried to transfer my WordPress site https://www.whiskydrams.co.uk/home to https://www.whiskydrams.co.uk and now I can’t access the login or admin pages and a 404 error comes up everywhere! I’m so scared I have lost all of my work so please can someone help me fix this as my host is not helping at all.

Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help!

Hi Gemarkham,

Nothing to do with Yoast, You will need FTP access and access to your SQL database to correct the paths…

It will probably be because you have a mismatch in the site and admin paths.

Send me a PM with your contact details and I’ll see if I can give you some help…

I got it fixed! Thank you!

Having the same issue, my XML Sitemaps gives error 404 page. I unchecked the “enable XML sitemap functionality” check-box and saved settings. Then re checked the box, saved settings but it doesn’t work for me. Can someone please help. I’m getting an Error 404.

@eoinbern

Do you have a chaching plugin installed? Have you read this article to rule a few things out? XML Sitemap in the WordPress SEO plugin

@hortons-art Thank you, I figured how to fix it yesterday. For anyone that is having that issue still. Here is what was wrong and what I did, I hope this helps.

I had “Add Meta tags” Plugin already installed and activated, I then added “Yoast SEO”. When I activated “Yoast SEO” and tried to generate my sitemap, I received the error above.

To fix this, I then deactivated, “Add Meta Tags” and “Yoast SEO”. Reactivated “Yoast SEO” and then got my sitemap fine, and then reactivated “Add Meta Tags” plugin after as it was conflicting with Yoast SEO’s ability to get Sitemap.

Hope that helps.

I have tried the suggestions above and read the doc I still get a 404 error when clicking on the Sitemap button or entering the complete url. I have no cache plugin or add meta tags plugin. I tied it on two different sites with the same results.

Is there something else to look at?

The only other problem I have seen is the Generate robots.txt file just shows a whole much of “source code” but no editor is shown. I don’t know if it is related. The .htaccess displays ok.

Thanks

I just tried it again and it is working. Don’t know why as the site is quite small so it should be almost instant.

I’ve followed @hortons-art fix and it worked. Thank you.

This is the second time I’ve had this issue with this plugin. The problem is that if I don’t go checking the webmaster tools I don’t know if there is a problem or not to fix.