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If you are running nginx, it's possible that /sitemap.xml will return the 404 error of nginx instead of being handled by Flarum. In this case you can try adding the following line to your site config, below the location / {} block of Flarum or at the end of the config. See posts below where we discussed this fix for more details.

location = /sitemap.xml { try_files $uri $uri/ /

i use Freeflarum so I do not have access to my config.php file

      16 days later

      FriendsOfFlarum
      hi, thank you for your work.
      I'm having this issue after install sitemap extension.
      I'm using Flarum beta 11 and even after I add the nginx conf, I still get 404 when open sitemap.xml

      server {
        server_name www.mysite.com;
        listen 80 ;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log vhost;
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
        server_name www.mysite.com;
        listen 443 ssl http2 ;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log vhost;
        ssl_session_timeout 5m;
        ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;
        ssl_session_tickets off;
        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/www.mysite.com.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/www.mysite.com.key;
        ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/certs/www.mysite.com.dhparam.pem;
        ssl_stapling on;
        ssl_stapling_verify on;
        ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/www.mysite.com.chain.pem;
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always;
        include /etc/nginx/vhost.d/default;
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://www.mysite.com;
        }
        location = /sitemap.xml { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; }
}

          duongkimngoc is it a Flarum not found error or an nginx not found error ? You should be able to tell by the presence of a "go back to homepage" link (if there's a link, it's Flarum).

              13 days later

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              • Post #71

              youngseebi As long as the sitemap can be parsed, and you tell Google where it is, it won't matter.

                  duongkimngoc I see you have a proxy_pass directive in your nginx config, that seems to use the HTTP server block for the website (?)

                  If the root for the HTTPS block is different from the HTTP block, then the sitemap location rule you added might actually be referencing the wrong url.

                  Could you maybe try placing that sitemap rule below the base location rule of the final server block ? You must have something like this somewhere:

                  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

                  And you can add the rule below so it looks something like this:

                  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /sitemap.xml { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; }

                  If you try that, remove the sitemap rule from its current location.

                  If that doesn't fix it, can you share the output of php flarum info ?

                    a month later
                    16 days later

                    When this extension will have a site map "sharding" feature? When the index is greater than 5000, a new sitemap .xml file will be created.

                      Hi, I had a problem. I installed the plugin and accidentally deleted the sitemap file. Now it does not appear again 🙁. I have reinstalled the plugin and it is still not generated. How can I get it again ?, I don't know how to generate a new sitemap.xml

                      Thanks for your help.

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                        • Post #80

                        LagunaLife The sitemap is generated on the fly - it doesn't exist as a file.

                            2 months later

                            [deleted] For some strange reason the sitemap still does not update automatically. More than a month ago I made a sitemap of my forum on the web www.xml-sitemaps.com, but of course I have to be generating it manually on the web if I want to see the new entries in the sitemap.

                            I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension but it didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?

                            I appreciate all help.

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                                • Post #83

                                LagunaLife Hmm. It should automatically populate. Did you create this by hand at any stage at all ? I don't seem to have this issue

                                    [deleted] Simply install the extension manually, with the command:

                                    composer require flagrow / sitemap

                                    What happens is that later I accidentally deleted the file "sitemap.xml", and I waited a few days but it was not generated 🙁

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                                        • Post #85
                                        • Edited

                                        LagunaLife Right. If you deleted the sitemap.xml file, then it must have been there to start with, so that could explain it. Can you disable the extension, check to ensure no sitemap.xml file exists in the root of flarum, then re-enable ?

                                        Test by loading the sitemap.xml file directly in a browser, and see if this reflects the true posts in your forum.

                                        To be clear, sitemap.xml is dynamically generated, and should never be created by hand as per https://discuss.flarum.org/d/14941-flagrow-sitemap/80