Title: Google Sitemap Plugin producing XML error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Google Sitemap Plugin producing XML error

 *  Resolved [erikcw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikcw/)
 * (@erikcw)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-sitemap-plugin-producing-xml-error/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’ve installed Google Sitemaps 2.71 ([http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final))
   on my blog (WP-2.03), but I’m running into a strange error.
 * When I try to access sitemap.xml.gz I get this page:
 * XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location: [http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml.gz](http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml.gz)
   Line Number 1, Column 1:� ^
 * But when I view sitemap.xml it loads perfectly.
 * I checked the contents of the sitemap.xml.gz file from SSH using vim, and it 
   appears to be formatted correctly. So I’m concluding that it is probably not 
   a build issue.
 * I’m think maybe something in the permalinks? I also have wp-cache installed, 
   but I disabled it and still the same error.
 * Any ideas?
 * Thanks!
    Erik

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-sitemap-plugin-producing-xml-error/#post-414171)
 * .gz are gzip archives, are you sure you’re supposed to be access that file particularly?.
   xml is probably the way to go.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-sitemap-plugin-producing-xml-error/#post-414230)
 * Trying to access it directly is a bit pointless. What you want to do is to figure
   out if Google is able to access it correctly, and you can do that by loading 
   up the Google sitemaps page and seeing what it says about your site.
 * Beyond what Google says about your map, it doesn’t make much difference what 
   the browser displays.
 *  Thread Starter [erikcw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikcw/)
 * (@erikcw)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-sitemap-plugin-producing-xml-error/#post-414249)
 * I just tried accessing it with lynx and it downloaded the file correctly. I guess
   I was a bit thrown when I got that error. I thought firefox would download the
   file since it was a *.gz…
 * Thanks for your help!

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 * [Parsing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parsing/)
 * [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemap/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

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 * Last reply from: [erikcw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikcw/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-sitemap-plugin-producing-xml-error/#post-414249)
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