Patrick Toulze

Same question here?

Cache in any kind of site or CMS can cause a site to become unresponsive, it can become corrupted. Normally a simple manual cleanup of the cache folder can fix it.

You absolutely right, in case of generated sitemap an Akeeba Admintools you should NOT put the exception rules for the sitemap files.

If they are real files ,Yes, they need to be as exception.

I want to thank you for your support.

I’m going to review your plugin to 5 stars

Good Weekend.

I did have to put back my exception
wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/views/

for https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml

I will come back here if I get https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml working

Thanks.

I try to add the exception in my firewall —>
wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/views/ to the complete folder.
— https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml still not working
— https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml Work

I take out all exceptions and same result
— https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml still not working
— https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml Work

https://archeofact.ca/?feed=sitemap also work

404 on https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml

Anyway, for now I will change the robots.text for —> https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml

and enter that working url for the search engine.

I will have to investigate further

Thanks Ravan for your infos. This si precious for me because, as I say, I’m not a pro with WordPress and work with Joomla only.

That surprises me. Sitemaps should be accessible without having access to the stylesheets. Is it the lightspeed server maybe that chokes on the fact it cannot fetch on referenced file? Never seen this before.

— I’am using a firewall and htaccess maker that I use for year on Joomla made by Akeeaba (Admin Tools). The htaccess made by this component can be extremely restrictif. On Joomla, when installing plugins, sometimes, I have to give them permissions to work. Anything coming from —> wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/views/ was giving a 403 (forbidden) until I made an access exception to the folder.

You will not find Akeeba Admintools on WP plugins saddly but they make available their fantastic Firewall an a backup system (Akeeba Backup) for WordPress. Akeeba Backup beat any existing WordPress backup system (I try) It’s easy and it work.

Normally, WordPress returns an empty feed then.

Thanks I will investigate.

Could you check if there is a static file called sitemap.xml in your site root? If so, then delete it and remove the related rewrite rule from your htaccess. The dynamic sitemap should then become available on https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml

If that does not work, you can also submit https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml which is the same.

I take out my hand made sitemap.xml but https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml is still not available, I think I know for what. I will come back after testing.
https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml Seem to work perfectly

I guess I have to change this line in my robot.text?
# XML Sitemap & Google News version 5.0.7 – https://status301.net/wordpress-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/
Sitemap: https://archeofact.ca/sitemap.xml

to

# XML Sitemap & Google News version 5.0.7 – https://status301.net/wordpress-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/
Sitemap: https://archeofact.ca/sitemap_index.xml

Thanks for helping. We going somewhere…
I’m not a WP pro, I work mostly on Joomla…

I think the url https://archeofact.ca/?feed=rss is not working or return a text —> No feed available, please visit the homepage — because I have no WP Post available on this site. I have only WP Pages.

I made an exception in my htaccess to accept incoming from the —> wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/views/ folder and now you can reach this URL —> https://archeofact.ca/?feed=sitemap

It seem to be ok. What do you think?

# XML Sitemap Last Changed
1 https://archeofact.ca/sitemap-home.xml 2019-02-15 01:03
2 https://archeofact.ca/sitemap-posttype-page.xml 2019-02-15 02:00

? Is it normal for the home page (in french & English) to appear in both “home” & “page” sitemap ?

? I guess —> https://archeofact.ca/?feed=sitemap is what I need to set in Google, Bing and others search engines?

Ok, I think I know where is the problem. I use a really restrictive htaccess and it probably block access to your sitemap. Can you tell me what folder/files need to be access?

I try no-referrer-when-downgrade and origin

Whenever I reload the front page = 403

Deactivate the plugin – Everything fine.

This mean
1— that my client site was not accessible for a while
2— An imbecile on my Hosting service uninstall a plugin that, he think was the problem, this will cost me hours to reinstall an setup.

I’m not Happy.

Same here, no sitemap.xml, not even sitemap.html

Thanks Steven, I finally harmonized all my url to my local server by a search and replace in the database.

I will do the same when sending live.

What a pain. I’m glad to work mostly with Joomla, maintaining a local clone is easy as pie. Any serious Dev need to maintain a local clone for backup & testing.

Thanks Steven, the original site was 2 wp site one english and one french. I develop locally (Mamp) a unique bilingual (with polylang) from the french site. The result is now a mix of local url and original french and english url.

Should I harmonized all that to my local url before migrating the site to it’s live environment or do it when live?

Ok – Great help from WP ??

Thanks a thousand times. I will proposed to my friend to ditch the double site solution and probably use Polylang, I like the “one post per language” solution. I guess, I will just have to copy the post/articles from one of the sites and follow/copy the same images links url/folder arrangment.

Polylang feel for me a little bit more like the great core multilingual system in Joomla.

What will be your choice, in this case of 2 site build ?