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[joomla] sitemap.xml redirects to map.xml, is this correct?

Chris French contact at chrisfrench.me
Thu Jul 26 21:14:53 EDT 2012


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On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> I'm not aware of anything in Joomla's core that would redirect sitemap.xml. I use that name on a few sites and have never had any issue with Google not funding it.
> 
> That said, Xmap works great as well as AceSEF ( http://www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/acesef-joomla-seo-sef-urls).
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matt
> 
> Sent from my phone that uses an open source operating system.
> 
> On Jul 26, 2012 8:39 PM, "David Roth" <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was given a sitemap.xml to upload. I uploaded to a Joomla 2.5 website, and it wasn't found by Google. I then did domain.com/sitemap.xml and it redirected to map.xml giving a 404 error of not found. I looked in the .htaccess and I don't see a mod_rewrite doing a redirect for sitemaps.
> 
> Is this an internal Joomla thing by default that anything coming in for sitemap.xml gets redirected to map.xml?
> 
> Figuring that things go better with a Joomla extension, I found xmap:
> http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/en/downloads/components/xmap
> 
> Is xmap what most of you are using for a sitemap to keep Google happy? Thanks!
> 
> David Roth
> 
> 
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