I have xmlsitemap installed and can view the sitemap by going to http://www.homepcpatrol.com/sitemap.xml

I recently made some changes to a page and got the following error:

The selected file /home/homepcpa/public_html/tmp/filezVzwUq could not be uploaded, because the destination files/xmlsitemap/sitemap.xml.gz is not properly configured.
Unable to load site map. Make sure that there is an xmlsitemap directory in your files directory and that it is writable by Drupal.

I looked up the error and found several threads on deleting temp and renaming, adding or removing / in admin options etc. I have tried everything I could find on the subject and nothing seems to work.

files (777)/xmlsitemap(775)/sitemap.xml.gz(664) exists but cannot be modified. If I change the permissions on files to 777 and select to apply to all files and folders it errors and perms don't change. The same is true if I try to change them manually:

Status: Set permissions of '/public_html/files/xmlsitemap/sitemap.xml.gz' to '777'
Command: SITE CHMOD 777 sitemap.xml.gz
Response: 550 Could not change perms on sitemap.xml.gz: Operation not permitted

any thoughts on how I can fix this problem? I tried disabling the module and then CHMOD and it made no difference. I tried disabling the module and then deleting the xmlsitemap sitemap folder but could not, nor could I delete sitemap.xml.gz from within the directory.

Reenabled the module and still get the same error. Please help!

Thanks in advance

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gavin_s’s picture

gavin_s commented

I'm having the same issue...I also had this with the user pictures functionality and could not find a fix. Seems to be a wider issue, maybe with some hosting specific slant.

Stefanos Karagos’s picture

Stefanos Karagos commented

I have similar problems with permissions.
Is there any solution?

dcypl’s picture

dcypl commented

Same Problem, and it may be affecting pathauto url generation too?

anthonylv’s picture

anthonylv commented

I recently encountered this problem which cropped up for no apparent reason. Changing sitemap.xml.gz permissions to 666 fixed it.

darren oh’s picture

darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate of issue 242210.

sinmao’s picture

sinmao commented
Component: xmlsitemap » Other

Yep, I had the same problem, followed your suggestion, and now, the problem is fixed.

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avpaderno
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Assigned: bstrange » Unassigned
ems-tom’s picture

ems-tom commented

I am having a similar problem, my sitemap.xml.gz file has dissapeared! There is no file in the folder in question by that name atall!! What do I do? I tried re-creating the file and uploading it but still got the same error.

Any ideas?

By the way the error message I got was exactly the same as the original posted in here.

Thanks

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flashy commented

I am having this issue also - I can't change the permission on the files in my server - they are stuck on 0600 - it just reads 550 Could not change perms on file: No such file or directory