I found that the sitemap become of directory rather than a file
It show http://mydomain.com/sitemap.xml/
It depends on how you have your Nginx rules set up. I’ve got all my sites running on Nginx and with a global rule like
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
the request for sitemap.xml will pass to index.php (and thus WordPress) if it does not exist as a static file or directory.
However, this may fail when there are other rules that target (sitemap).xml requests such as:
# Cache static files
location ~* \.(txt|xml|css|rss|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|swf)$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
expires max;
}
This will take prevalence over the general rule for all .xml requests. In such a case, just take both xml and txt (needed for the robots.txt request to pass to WordPress) out of the list.
Thanks.
I found the “Cache static files” does not have xml in it.
I am using Easyengine, It have some config for Yoast, but I don’t know how to rewrite it
# Yoast sitemap
location ~ ([^/]*)sitemap(.*)\.x(m|s)l$ {
rewrite ^/sitemap\.xml$ /sitemap_index.xml permanent;
rewrite ^/([a-z]+)?-?sitemap\.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 last;
Rules for yoast sitemap with wp|wpsubdir|wpsubdomain
rewrite ^.*/sitemap_index\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
rewrite ^.*/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
Following lines are options. Needed for WordPress seo addons
rewrite ^/news_sitemap\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=wpseo_news last;
rewrite ^/locations\.kml$ /index.php?sitemap=wpseo_local_kml last;
rewrite ^/geo_sitemap\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=wpseo_local last;
rewrite ^/video-sitemap\.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=video last;
access_log off;
}
Ah yes, the Yoast sitemap rules that come with EasyEngine will interfere… Just remove them, unless you are using Yoast SEO and any of its paid addons. And then do a nginx -t && service nginx reload of course.
Can you share a link to your sitemap? I can check if all is working as it should 🙂
