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  • April 6, 2020 at 10:00 am #538687

    P O
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    Today I discovered errors in my sitemap.

    The main sitemap sitemap_index.xml using Rank Math can’t be loaded and results in a 404 error where GeoDirectory is installed. All other sitemaps in sites without GeoDirectory load fine. (Exact same installations without GeoDirectory load fine the sitemap)

    Going to search console I see that in fact the sites with GD have errors.

    gd_place_tags-sitemap.xml

    General HTTP error
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

    gd_placecategory-sitemap.xml

    General HTTP error
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

    This results in a “Couldn’t fetch” for the main sitemap_index.xml in search console.

    How to fix it?

    Thanks.

    April 6, 2020 at 6:35 pm #538757

    Kor
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    Hi P O,

    Thanks for your post. There could be some misconfiguration. Are you getting the same issue if you use yoast? https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/integrations/yoast/ . Also, share your Website WP admin access here in private reply and we’ll check this out for you.

    April 6, 2020 at 6:59 pm #538763

    P O
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    April 7, 2020 at 9:56 am #538879

    Naveen Giri
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    April 7, 2020 at 9:58 am #538881

    P O
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    Post count: 501

    And why I have to run the Rank Math wizard in all my sites again?

    Also, please do tests in your test sites, not in mine.

    What did you change in the setup?

    Thanks.

    April 7, 2020 at 10:19 am #538884

    Naveen Giri
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    I haven’t seen this issue on my local site with rank math.
    also haven’t noticed the warning you mentioned above.

    since you are running a cache plugin so I guess it could be a cache issue.
    Please flush your cache on other sites and check again.

    I haven’t done any changes, I just ran the setup wizard with existing settings.

    Meanwhile, I will try to reproduce the issue on another test setup.

    Thanks

    April 7, 2020 at 11:13 am #538897

    P O
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    Will keep watching this, because the only thing I changed, was updating GD, nothing else.

    All my other sites without GD, work fine.

    I already ran the wizard in all sites to make them work again.

    Keep in mind that the sitemaps with errors are:

    gd_place_tags-sitemap.xml
    gd_placecategory-sitemap.xml

    Thanks.

    April 7, 2020 at 11:18 am #538901

    P O
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    I am still getting this in Search Console:

    gd_place_tags-sitemap.xml
    gd_placecategory-sitemap.xml

    General HTTP error
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

    So there is a problem with your sitemaps.

    Please let me know how to fix them.

    Thanks.

    April 7, 2020 at 1:45 pm #538934

    Kiran
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    Hello,

    I checked all urls of the sitemaps gd_place_tags-sitemap.xml & gd_placecategory-sitemap.xml and all urls are working fine without any error.

    Is there any more details about the HTTP error like url?

    Provide us FTP credentials so we can debug if there any error in log.

    Regards,
    Kiran

    April 7, 2020 at 3:17 pm #538955

    P O
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    Post count: 501

    That is correct.

    But if you go to Google Search Console you get:

    General HTTP error
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

    And that is the problem.

    You need to go to your Search Console to test, not to my FTP.

    Thanks.

    April 8, 2020 at 9:39 am #539082

    Kiran
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    April 8, 2020 at 9:44 am #539086

    P O
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    April 12, 2020 at 6:55 am #539689

    P O
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    After updating to GeoDirectory 2.0.0.87 again all site maps gone and with a 404 error.

    Run Rank Math wizard again and now the main one shows. But as before, the internal ones fail.

    /gd_place_tags-sitemap.xml
    /gd_placecategory-sitemap.xml
    /post-sitemap.xml

    I really need a fix for this, GD is affecting everything in Search Console.

    Thanks.

    April 13, 2020 at 6:23 am #539766

    Kiran
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    April 14, 2020 at 5:45 pm #540173

    P O
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    Post count: 501

    Today again.

    Sitemap loading fine in site.com/sitemap_index.xml

    Update to GeoDirectory 2.0.0.88

    site.com/sitemap_index.xml 404 error

    So you are breaking it. Maybe people don’t care or they haven’t even notice this, but you should really fix this.

    Now I will will have to once again, run RankMath Setup.

    Thanks.

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