Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] 4.0b8 Beta Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] 4.0b8 Beta Error

 *  [Martyn Haskins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martyn1197/)
 * (@martyn1197)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-40b8-beta-error/)
 * 4.0b8 Beta says that it generates a static xml file (as well as a compressed 
   one) yet nothing is visible in the root direct for the domain in question, when
   I enter the domain to the site map, [http://www.myexampledomain.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.myexampledomain.com/sitemap.xml)
   it is visible in a browser but if I add the site map domain to Google webmaster
   tools it returns a Redirect Error 302 as it doesn’t physically exist…
 * If I do physically add a sitemap.xml file to the directory as a test then the
   plugin replies with the following… ‘There is still a sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.
   gz file in your blog directory. Please delete them as no static files are used
   anymore’
 * Problem is that Google Webmaster tools is looking for a physical sitemap.xml 
   file, can anyone help with a solution?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [Matthew Boynes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mboynes/)
 * (@mboynes)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-40b8-beta-error/#post-2543991)
 * Google et al have no way of knowing if a file is static or dynamic, nor do they
   care, so I would guess that something else is amiss here. Does it give any more
   details about this redirect error? Most likely you have another plugin which 
   is intercepting googlebot requests. I would try:
    1. Using “fetch as googlebot” to see what it says: [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587)
    2. Using cURL to pretend to be googlebot. Try these two commands in your terminal
       application of choice:
    3. `curl --head -A "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.
       com/bot.html)" "http://www.myexampledomain.com/sitemap.xml"`
    4. `curl --head -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/
       535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7" "http://www.myexampledomain.
       com/sitemap.xml"`

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 * Last reply from: [Matthew Boynes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mboynes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-40b8-beta-error/#post-2543991)
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