By dami on

I have drupal installed in a subdirecotry: www.example.com/drupal/
I installed gsitemap 5.x-1.2 and the site "www.example.com/drupal" successfully submitted and verified to google sitemap. The sitemap automatically submitted is: www.example.com/drupal/gsitemap/0 , however, google says there is error for this sitemap:
"URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.
URL http://www.example.com/drupal"

How to resolve this, and is it because my drupal is installed in a subdir? Thanks!

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cmsproducer commented

This very issue has been discussed and solved several times on this forum and others. Here is an in-depth review of the issue subject: Submitting an XML sitemap to google and successfully configuring Drupal Gsitemap. You can also search drupal.org for more information on the module.
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dami commented

Thanks. So the solution would be create a gsitemap.xml pointing to gsitemap/ ?
I remember 4.7 version of gsitemap has the same setup (using gsitemap/) and didn't have any problem. Is it because google sitemap changed rules or it's a bug in the latest version of xmlsitemap module?

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Phillip Mc commented

Hi Dami,

Did you work out how to get around this..I'm getting the same/similar error (from google Webmaster Tools)?

Phil

Edited: I'm going to try the solution linked in an earlier post and will report back up here if it works..i.e.

To solve the above-described problem, the most straight forward method is to create a URL alias within Drupal that names the gsitemap 'folder' with a secondary path that has a file extension so that it appears to be a file inthe root folder of your website/Drupal installation. For instance, creating an alias gsitemap.xml and pointing it to gsitemap will avail a sitemap for Google to download at www.example.com/gsitemap.xml Since this URL appears to point to a file in the root of your website (www.example.com/), Google will consider you to be compliant of the second rule (above). This will enable Google to follow your sitemap and improve the indexing speed of your website.

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dami commented

Unfortunately, no ....
I tried setting up a url alias using drupal's path module, which points www.example.com/drupal/gsitemap.xml to www.example.com/drupal/gsitemap/0. I have also resubmitted this new gsitemap url (www.example.com/drupal/gsitemap.xml) to google. Still the same error:

Line 1: URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. www.exmple.com/drupal

Please let me know if you are able to solve this. Thanks!

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Maticode commented

It must be in your root directory. www.example.com/gsitemap.xml

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sohbetme commented

URL not allowed ! This message was opened to a variety of subjects, but could not see good enough answer. I could not find a logical answer. I think the problem from a given address into your robots.txt. If we are specifying the address of sitemaps in robots.txt. It could mean that the different addresses to check out.
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