Empty sitemap – NOT 404
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My client is using GoDaddy cpanel hosting with latest 4.0 wordpress installed. I get no errors enabling the sitemap and updating it states the search engines have been notified, however the url produces just a blank page with only a single style tag inside the <head> section with an empty rule *{}.
Looking at the file structure, there are no xml files in the root folder where my wp-config file is located. They are not hidden either.
If I manually create the files, the url works but the plugin complains about the files existing stating it doesn’t use this method any longer.
I am not using nginx or any cache plugins and this is not GoDaddy’s “managed” wordpress hosting either.
I also updated my permalinks.
I suspect that since the plugin uses wordpress php to parse the url something in my theme framework is the root of this problem but would like to suggest the plugin author to allow the option of using static files, even if they can’t be written to the server, provide the cut/paste xml structure for those of us that need it.
Another thought is the fact that I am not using GoDaddy’s hosting root /public_html/ for my wordpress install and am using wildcards in .htaccess to redirect to the sub-folder where wordpress believes it is a root install. This way future domains added to the hosting product are all contained in their own folders and nothing is gumming up the root directory. I know this can be problematic because the “hosts” such as GoDaddy don’t often think logically about this kind of stuff and force the primary domain to the root =(
Again, if I create the static files, they work so that leads me to think the issue is with the theme and the permalink handling.
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