Google Sitemaps Plugin

  • James

    (@jamestl2)


    19 years ago

    Well, I just finished installing the plugin, and I click on the (Rebuild Sitemap) button, and I get these errors:

    Could not write into /home/(username)/public_html/sitemap.xml

    and

    Could not write into /home/(username)/public_html/sitemap.xml.gz

    Don’t know why it wont build a sitemap, am I already suppose to have these files created?

    PS: I am using 2.2, so I thought I would need the latest update, so I downloaded that plugin, and got the same errors.

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  • westie

    (@westie)

    19 years ago

    Can’t help much, but i’ve got a similar problem!!

    i’ve just installed google sitemap plugin too on

    http://www.homereporter.co.uk/blog/

    in the google sitemap plugin folder i changed all the permissions to 666 – which i thought would allow writing…. (please let me know if this is not correct!)

    but i get a 404 error page on /sitemap.xml

    i can create sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz, but where do i upload them too?

    (no rude answers please!)

    thanks
    kathryn

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    19 years ago

    Still receiving the same errors, problem isn’t fixed yet.

    Kathryn,
    If you mean by “where do I upload them to?”, how to actually submit them to Google, here is what I did:

    1. Go to Google Webmaster Central ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/ )
    2. First Make sure your site is verified by Google
    3. Click on “Webmaster Tools”
    4. Click on Manage: www.(yoursite).com
    5. There should be 4 tabs: Diagnostic, Statistics, Links, Sitemap (Click on this tab)
    6. Then there should be an “add a sitemap” link
    7. Then choose “Add General Web Sitemap” from the drop-down menu
    8. Then type in the URL of the sitemap (www.(yoursite).com/sitemap.xml or whatever) and click “Add Web Sitemap”

    Hope this Helps

    chrisforce

    (@chrisforce)

    19 years ago

    Westie, I installed it fine but I did need to change the files to be writable. I placed them in the main directory (not the plugins folder).

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    19 years ago

    Still getting the errors, are we supposed to have the sitemap files pre-made? If so, then with what program should they be created with?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    19 years ago

    It doesn’t matter, just make empty files in a text editor if you like. They’ll get overwritten anyway. Then make the files 666 (not the directory itself, just the files).

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    19 years ago

    Thanks a lot, that did the trick!

    Forgive me for asking, probaably a stupid question, but what is a “ping”? It says I successfully pinged Google. Does it mean the file was automatically sent to Google?

    drmike

    (@drmike)

    19 years ago

    The plugin should do that automatically. It’s just letting Google know that your site’s been updated.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    19 years ago

    Forgive me for asking, probaably a stupid question, but what is a “ping”? It says I successfully pinged Google. Does it mean the file was automatically sent to Google?

    Sorta. Basically, it sent a message to Google telling them that the sitemap was updated. Google will come by later and grab a copy for their search engine to store.

    westie

    (@westie)

    19 years ago

    I did it!

    thanks for all your help folks!

    kathryn
    http://www.homereporter.co.uk/blog

    lets hope it helps with the seo

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