Cannot create a sitemap with XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.2.2

by moshi460

Posted: 14 years ago 12 replies

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Ok, I have spent the last 2 days trying to get this thing to work. I have the following:

There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable. Learn more
There was a problem writing your zipped sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable. Learn more
The building process took about 0 seconds to complete and used 13.5 MB of memory.
If you changed something on your server or blog, you should rebuild the sitemap manually.
If you encounter any problems with the build process you can use the debug function to get more information.

This is what I have done so far:

Uninstalled and re-installed the WP plugin
created the sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz files
Uploaded to Public_html
Ran the rebuild sitemap
Rinse and repeat of the above errors.

What the H*** am I doing wrong?

I'm really frustrated at this point. Any help would surely be appreciated in advance and thank you very much.

Moshi460

#create #generator #sitemap #wordpress #xml

Gasen 14 years ago

Check the properties / permissions of those files. Make sure sure that they are writable.
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Rich777 14 years ago

If my memory serves me correctly there are several site map generator plugins available for wordpress. You might just want to try a different sitemap generator plugin.
" There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable. Learn more "
Locate the sitemap files you generated and select one by clicking once on it. Then look at your options menu and you should see a button that says, 'edit or change file permissions'.
Use this option to change the file permissions to writable. "755" means set file permissions to:read-write-execute.
Hope this helps...
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- moshi460 14 years ago
  
  Thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately, this did not work either. Trust me..........I have spent hours looking through forum posts for solutions and still not much help. The only thing I can think of they may fix this is pointing the path directly.....
  www.mysite.com/public_html/sitemap.xml
  One thing though, I am not sure the above path is "exactly" correct?
  I have rebuilt the site multiple times after changing every word individually....adding www, removing www, adding http, removing http, adding both, removing both.....
  As you can see I still seem to have issues.
  Along with re-installing and uninstalling the plug in multiple times with no change.
  I am about to just take the plug in out and have the dag'gone thing created manually and put the sitemap in and then have google try to find it..
  SHeesh you would think it does not need to be that hard.
  
  Moshi460
  
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aa411853 14 years ago

Nope that path is not correct. public_html would be mysite.com/sitemap.xml. Do you have wordpress installed in a sub directory like mysite.com/blog?

Are you using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin?
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AJHunter 14 years ago

Did you upgrage your woodpress blog to the latest version and then try again?
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Lisa Gergets 14 years ago

I use Google Simple Sitemaps plug in. I used to use Google XML Sitemaps, but started having problems with it. Try this one: WordPress › Simple Google Sitemap WordPress Plugins
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- A Bary 14 years ago
  
  What's WP 3.2.2 ??
  
  The latest version I can find for WP is 2.9.2 !!
  
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  april_forshee 14 years ago
  
  If you have such problem, may be u should just get another sitemap writer-Sitemap Writer Pro. Either way it's a must-have-tool and better be a good one nad with best priorities.
  
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  Leslie B 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by goldmind123
  
  What's WP 3.2.2 ??
  
  The latest version I can find for WP is 2.9.2 !!
  
  I know they are beta-testing WP3 Maybe he mixed them up?
  
  Leslie
  
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  tyroneshum 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by goldmind123
  
  What's WP 3.2.2 ??
  
  The latest version I can find for WP is 2.9.2 !!
  
  I second on you. I use WordPress › Simple Google Sitemap WordPress Plugins as well and it worked well on my end although I'm on 2.9.2
  
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Larozhfuko

14 years ago

I had the same problem.. Frankly speaking I couldn't fix it ...

All I can advice to stick with Sitemap Writer Pro. It it a shareware program, but I guess this is the most optimal solution, taking into consideration that the number of pages of your wordpress website will expand in the course of time. You can create video Google News, Google Video/Images sitemaps as well. Also good news for you - I've a coupon code that is still active: SWP51OFFDOD

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april_forshee

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Larozhfuko

I had the same problem.. Frankly speaking I couldn't fix it ...

Sitemap Writer Pro is really a great program, thanks.

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Cannot create a sitemap with XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.2.2

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