XMAP confusion around xml file directory

[tokenring]

both sites have this in the .htaccess file too.

########## Begin - sitemap.xml for root directory SEO tests
# enable to allow SEO tests to see sitemap.xml in root directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitemap.xml
RewriteRule .* /index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml
########## End - sitemap.xml for root directory SEO tests

[tokenring]

so I can get all the 1.5 sites to pass, but not 1.7.

Please help with this.

<robots.txt>
User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/
SITEMAP: http://www.aruffrufflife.com/sitemap.xml


<sitemap.xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.aruffrufflife.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&amp;view=xml&amp;id=1&amp;lang=en</loc>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>



<.htaccess>
########## Begin - sitemap.xml for root directory SEO tests
# enable to allow SEO tests to see sitemap.xml in root directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitemap.xml
RewriteRule .* /index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml
########## End - sitemap.xml for root directory SEO tests

There is obviously a configuration combination that I'm doing wrong with my 1.7 sites. I can't figure it out what it is. Our questions and answers back and forth are a bit hard to follow.


Thanks,
Aaron

[guilleva]

Hi, the link the sitemap are different for joomla 1.7

they use "id=1" instead of "sitemap=1", so please make sure you use that sintax on both, the .htaccess and the sitema.xml

[tokenring]

thanks guilleva. Maybe you should update your little page on this to reflect that.

also, I'll try what you are saying and do the tests again. If it doesn't work, I'll explain my situation a bit better too. If I specify the url for the sitemap tests as

www.domain.com/sitemap.xml it will fail, but if I take the URL out of the sitemap.xml file and put it into the sitemap test it passes. that is what is strange. I'll be back shortly.\

thanks again,

Aaron

[tokenring]

so I changed "sitemap=1" to "id=1" in the .htaccess file, but since "sitemap=1" does not exist in my sitemap.xml file, how do I do the find and replace?

Anyway, I removed the sitemap.xml file from the root directory and made the "sitemap=1" to "id=1" changes and now tests pass for Joomla 1.7 sites. I added that comment to the .htaccess file for future reference so I don't get confused. Thanks for the greatly appreciated support. I will rate in forum and donate.

Aaron

[bigbird8]

Great component and very configurable. I have about 8 sites which could be broken into 2 groups. Thered are 4 Joomla 1.5 sites and 4 joomla 1.7 sites. Out of the eight only 1 passes the sitemap test because http://www.boots-live.com

[tokenring]

bigbird8 - I would be glad to help you out. I'll show you what I've done also. I have 4 1.5 sites and 4 1.7 sites, so we are in the same boat. Actually 2-3 of mine are still failing which is weird. I had to do an interesting change to get that one to work, so I actually have 2 that are not working.

first of all, what sites are you using for your sitemap tests? Do you see the sitemaps in WMT control panel?

Aaron