google sitemap no work, what permissions do I need to change

  • overlander

    (@overlander)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    I get this error with google sitemaps plugin :

    Could not write into /home/overland/public_html/sitemap.xml

    Could not write into /home/overland/public_html/sitemap.xml.gz

    what permissions on what files do I have to change?

    thanks

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  • grampamorts

    (@grampamorts)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    go to this website, then go to the bottom where the camera is, and click on ‘free google sitemap tutorials’

    http://www.andrechaperon.com/2005/07/google-sitemaps-tutorial/

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    16 years, 10 months ago

    Or if you have shell access you can run


    chmod 666 /home/overland/public_html/sitemap.xml*

    Which would make those files world writeable and readable.

    Ideally you would want to restrict that to the userid of the webserver as anyone on that server would be able to write to those files.

    But if you are using a hosted service then you probably won’t be able to change the file ownership.

    Thread Starter overlander

    (@overlander)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    thanks guys, this worked:

    If you get permission errors make sure that the script has writing rights in your blog directory. Try to create the sitemap.xml resp. sitemap.xml.gz at manually and upload them with a ftp program and set the rights to 777 with CHMOD. Then restart sitemap generation on the administration page.

    straight outta readme.text…oops

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