Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Bug – continually reporting error with sitemap.xml
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Bug – continually reporting error with sitemap.xml

 *  [pipeweed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pipeweed/)
 * (@pipeweed)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-bug-continually-reporting-error-with-sitemapxml/)
 * There’s a minor but annoying bug in the Google sitemap generator plugin. Even
   though sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz are both present, and correctly permissioned,
   the config page keeps reporting that “There was a problem writing your sitemap
   file. Make sure the file exists and is writable.”
 * Simply recreating the sitemaps manually works, and the error stops appearing 
   after that point, but this false/misleading error message probably stops a lot
   of people from even trying.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-bug-continually-reporting-error-with-sitemapxml/)
 * Status: not resolved

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