When Google comes to retrieve the sitemap, it searches for "sitemap" (which doesn't exist) rather than "gsitemap" which does. Is there a way to change that?

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Maniac8888’s picture

Title: gsitemap sends wrong filename » Umm

Uh, it works for me. All my logs show gsitemap. Are you sure Google is looking for http://www.yoursite.com/?q=gsitemap?

pfaocle’s picture

Title: Umm » Google attempting to retrieve incorrect URL for Google Sitemap

Setting the title back to a sensible description.

@drupalfan: You could always submit your sitemaps manually via http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/. I haven't had a problem with this module, but I've always submitted mine manually...

drupalfan’s picture

I finally did submit the sitemap to the Google Sitemap project. That way, I was able to specify /?q=gsitemap. Up until that time, I had a number of q=sitemap entries in my gsitemap log.

Ed

SamAMac’s picture

Priority: Critical » Minor

The way auto-submit works, the module contacts Google, Google then attempts to download the sitemap immediately and returns an error the module if the sitemap could not be downloaded.

Check your watchdog log. If the entries say "Sitemap successfully submitted to Google," then Google got the sitemap just fine. If there are errors instead, post them and I'll check on it.

Are you sure that a sitemap wasn't previously submitted with the "sitemap" URL? It may be that Google is trying to get a stale entry. And have you checked the IP on these attempts to make sure it's really Google that's trying to get them?

drupalfan’s picture

Type page not found
Date Saturday, November 5, 2005 - 12:40am
User Anonymous
Location /?q=sitemap
Message sitemap not found.
Severity warning
Hostname 66.249.72.208

This is Google's IP.

varunvnair’s picture

Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Make sure the URI you are submitting to Google is
http://example.com/?q=gsitemap.

It is gsitemap and NOT sitemap. There is a 'g' before sitemap.

I am using this module for my blog and it is working just fine.

varunvnair’s picture

Forgot to add this in the previous follow up.

Have changed the category for this report from 'bug' to 'support'. Have also changed status from 'active' to 'fixed'

Anonymous’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)