Title: 503 Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 503 Error

 *  Resolved [retroriff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retroriff/)
 * (@retroriff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/)
 * Hi, my sitemap files gives a 503 error but they work after refresh. This is what
   I get with curl:
 * curl -I sitemap.xml
    HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable Content-Type: text/html;
   charset=utf-8 Retry-After: 15 Content-Length: 464 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: 
   Mon, 26 May 2014 14:52:10 GMT Age: 0 Connection: close X-Cache: MISS X-Varnish-
   User:
 * I am using nginx and varnish so I guess that my server settings could be causing
   the issue. I’ve read in the plugin settings that I should add some nginx rules
   when I get 404 errors, but I am getting 503.
 * I will apreciate your suggestions.
 * Thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952502)
 * Hi,
 * Can you check your server logfile if there are any more dtails?
 *  Thread Starter [retroriff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retroriff/)
 * (@retroriff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952543)
 * Hi,
 * there are no details because I think that it is a varnish issue. I have realized
   that it works without Varnish.
 * Using varnish, this URL doesn’t work either:
 * index.php?xml_sitemap=sitemap-misc.xml
 * I am totally confused.
 *  Thread Starter [retroriff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retroriff/)
 * (@retroriff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952544)
 * It doens’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [retroriff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retroriff/)
 * (@retroriff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952547)
 * I’ve disabled “Include sitemap in HTML format” but it doesn’t work either.
 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952617)
 * Hi,
 * without any log details it is really hard to get an idea what the problem might
   be 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [retroriff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retroriff/)
 * (@retroriff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-7/#post-4952622)
 * I updated to yhe last version of the plugin and now it works.
    Thanks.

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