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Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
If you’re encountering 403 with the sitemap generated by Rank Math, then there’s might be something that preventing Googlebot from crawling the sitemap generated by Rank Math.
Can you please share your sitemap URL with us? So that we can check?
Meanwhile, please try checking if any security plugin or from server-level Googlebot is being blocked from crawling Rank Math Sitemap.
You may also get in touch with your hosting provider to see if they can assist you with this one.
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
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When I add the sitemap to the search console, it gives 403 error. I’m looking at the logs on the Plesk and I’m getting a 403 error. I am using the sitemap feature of rank math. When you physically create a sitemap.xml file, put it in htdoc and edit from robots.txt, you can see it, but you know rank math does not give a physical xml file, so I edit from robots.txt only but I get a 403 error. I set up a second site on the same server and it worked without any problems. Something is blocking googlebot and bingbot but I couldn’t figure it out. The screenshot below is the log result when I query sitemap_index.xml in the search console. Mod_security fail2ban firewall vs. I turned it off, disabled all plugins, still the same.
Help me. I am using Plesk vps server.
artwoonz.com/sitemap_index.xml
Hello,
Thank you for providing additional information.
I visited the URL again and it’s redirecting to homepage.
I would suggest please check the server rewrite URL added in the server. Hosting provider can give more detailed answer on this.
Hope this helps.
Thank you
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
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