To start, I love this module, it make things so much easier. I just have one issue with it. I was checking my google account and I have warnings with my sitemap. There is a URL that does not exist listed and the google spider is getting a 404 error. I don't want this to hurt the ranking of my new site and am very concerned. The address to my sitemap is http://commutex.com/sitemap.xml the link that should not be there is http://commutex.com/forum/1. The forum link that should be there is http://www.commutex.com/forums/index.php. Is there a way for me to edit the output of the module to delete this entry? Or do I have to reinstall the module? Thanks for any help on this.

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

Check the documentation. The instructions are for the next version, but not much has changed.

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nugz commented
Assigned: nugz » Unassigned
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

If you are referring to "Excluding an item from sitemap" yeah I read that, the problem is that the url doesn't exist on my site. Therefore I can't exclude it.

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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http://www.commutex.com/forums/index.php/1 works. Why is index.php in the URL?

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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nugz commented

Yes. http://www.commutex.com/forums/index.php works, thats the address to my forum, but the sitemap placed a different link to the forum that doesnt exist, http://www.commutex.com/forum/1 This URL doesn't exist and I don't know why it is listed in the sitemap instead of the first one. And since it doesnt exist, I cant tell the sitemap to exclude it.

as for the index.php, It's the default URL and I haven't looked into changing it.

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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Please explain how you managed to set up you site so that the URL doesn't exist. It doesn't match the expected behavior of the forum module.

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nugz commented

I set up the site as normal. Created pages, created content. And added some external links. 1 link to my forum (SMF based forum), 1 to my community, and various links under the "Links" block that I created. The problem is that the URL http://www.commutex.com/forum/1 does not exist.

I never created that URL. The URL I created was http://www.commutex.com/forums/index.php It is a working URL that is on every page, you can test it (it is under Forums). My issue is that the sitemap did not put the working URL that I created into the sitemap, it used a URL that I did not create nor implement.

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darren oh
Primary language English
Location Lakeland, Florida
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Drupal normally creates forum URLs automatically. Please explain how you created the URL.

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nugz commented

I dont think you guys are getting this...I dont have a Drupal Forum, I have the SMF Forum that is in a subdomain. I have the Drupal forum disabled.

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darren oh
Primary language English
Location Lakeland, Florida
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Your version of XML Sitemap does not support non-Drupal URLs. Additional links must be Drupal paths. You do, however, have the ability to create a custom module to add links to the site map.