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[David Roth]

Hi Matt.

Thanks for the reply!

Your response reminded me to look elsewhere and I found the solution. A
wildcard redirect was acting a little too wild! :-)

Thanks for the recommend about the sitemap extensions, I will check out
AceSEF too.

David Roth

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matt Thomas <matt at betweenbrain.com> 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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