sitemap showing 404

Hello,

I apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap showing a 404 error. Since you’ve already checked that your sitemap is enabled and saved the permalinks, here are a few additional steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue:

1. Flush the Sitemap Cache: Go to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and change the Links Per Sitemap setting. After that, click on Save Changes. Then, navigate to Settings → Permalinks in your WordPress admin area and hit the Save Changes button again, even if you didn’t make any changes.
   

2. Check for Server Configuration: If you are using an NGINX server, ensure that the correct rewrite rules are in place. You can refer to our guide on fixing sitemap issues on NGINX servers for more details.

3. Disable Caching: If you have a caching plugin or server-level caching, ensure that the sitemap is excluded from caching. You can add the following code to your theme’s rank-math.php file:

   add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false' );

4. Check Robots Meta Tags: Ensure that your pages are set to index in the robots meta tag. You can check this by navigating to Rank Math SEO → Advanced tab in the post editing screen.
   

If you’ve tried all these steps and the issue persists, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent from our support team can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we hope to resolve it soon!