sitemap does not update also shows Nginx issue

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  • Resolved Nitin Sethi

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    I have been facing sitemap issues on my portal. we post news articles frequently throughout the day and the site is content heavy. hence sitemap is critical to the business

    After activating the sitemap, the system asks to ‘add this code to your NGINX configuration file’.
    The web host had added the following code as mentioned in the plesk panel > domainname.com > Hosting & DNS > Apache & nginx Settings > Additional nginx directives (https://ibb.co/m9xGzDk)

    rewrite ^/sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
    rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;

    Also I am also informed that the same code is also added through backend (https://ibb.co/y5j0Jjr) in nginx.conf file (as instructed in the link provided in the dashboard)

    Request you to kindly guide / handhold in a step wise manner that could help my developer/web host both

    Also if you could suggest if my sitemap settings are optimum for a news portal.

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  • Danial

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Could you please do the following:
    1. Head over to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks
    Hit the save button once.

    2. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings
    Hit the save button once.

    Also, ensure that you exclude sitemaps from caching.
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    I hope this resolves your issue.

    Nitin Sethi

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello Danial,

    Thanks for the reply. I have done the setting and I am confused a bit in a few settings.

    1. In the sitemap settings I have included posts, should I include pages too? [https://ibb.co/gmWvzTQ]

    2. And the Nginx error (on top) still shows up! [https://ibb.co/gmWvzTQ]

    2. Which is the correct way of adding page rule to clodflare?
    a. Add sitemap URL with bypass? [https://ibb.co/4Z02TDZ]
    b. This is how the code snippet gets added in the page rule, as mentioned in RM link, what is the right way? [https://ibb.co/tHCSRp2]

    Miguel

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us again.

    1. You should enable the pages sitemap and if you want to exclude specific pages from being indexed you can control that on a per page basis.
    In order to prevent search engines from indexing a specific page all you need to is edit that page and change the meta settings to “No Index”.
    No index pages

    2. The info you see at the top is not an error but more like a warning telling you to do that change, if you don’t see the pages loading on your sitemap. You only need to do that step if you actually encounter the error mentioned in the message.

    3. You should enter the rule in Cloudflare with the regex expression (Option b).

    sitemap?\.xml?
([a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\xml|xsl)?
([az0-9_\-]*?)sitemap([a-z0-9_\-]*)?.xml

    This way Cloudflare will look at your website and find all the files that match that expression. The first option only excludes that one sitemap from being cached.

    If you have any other questions that we can assist you with, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

    Nitin Sethi

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello Miguel,

    Thanks for the response. n.b. I am not a coder and am confused with the response (my bad)
    Can you elaborate it literally, the regex code that needs to go in the cloudflare page rule. I have shared the screen which has 3 options. What exact code should go in the URL part? And then the settings would be ‘cache level’ & ‘bypass’ or something else? https://ibb.co/XD5vW0w

    You have mentioned option B.

    Does it mean this: https://ibb.co/71HDVYn
    OR
    this: https://ibb.co/PFtnq1h

    or am i totally incorrect?

    Kindly guide

    Reinelle

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for the follow-up.

    Could you confirm if there are missing posts in your sitemap? If so, then you’ll need to follow the steps given.

    Cloudflare does not cache sitemaps by default, so you won’t have to do anything. However, if you’ve made some changes in the settings that are causing sitemaps to be cached, you can set a page rule inside your Cloudflare account and add the following code snippet.

    Here is a guide by Cloudflare on how to use their page rules:
    https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172316-How-do-I-include-or-exclude-a-specific-URL-from-Cloudflare-s-page-rules-

    I hope that helps. Thank you, and looking forward to your update.

    RankBot

    4 years ago

    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.

    Thank you.

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