Sitemap problem

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap. It sounds like a frustrating situation, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention.

When you encounter the "Cannot read sitemap" error for your sub-sitemaps, there are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot the issue:

1. Flush Permalinks: Sometimes, simply saving the permalinks in your WordPress dashboard can resolve issues with sitemap accessibility. Go to Settings → Permalinks and click Save Changes without making any changes.

2. Check Sitemap Configuration: Ensure that your sitemap is correctly configured. You can validate your sitemap using the Validate XML Sitemap tool to check for any errors.
   

3. Server Configuration: If you are using an Apache or Nginx server, ensure that the necessary rewrite rules are in place. For Apache, you may need to add specific rules to your .htaccess file, and for Nginx, you should check your Nginx configuration file for the appropriate rewrite rules.

   • For Apache:

     # START of Rank Math Sitemap Rewrite Rules
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
     RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 [L]
     RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]
     RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)?-?sitemap.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 [L]
     # END of Rank Math Sitemap Rewrite Rules

   • For Nginx:

     # START Nginx Rewrites for Rank Math Sitemaps
     rewrite ^/sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
     rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
     rewrite ^/([a-z]+)?-sitemap.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 last;
     # END Nginx Rewrites for Rank Math Sitemaps

4. Check for Plugin Conflicts: Sometimes, other plugins can interfere with the sitemap functionality. You can use the Health Check plugin to identify any potential conflicts.

5. Clear Cache: If you have caching enabled on your site, make sure to clear your cache after making any changes.

If these steps do not resolve the issue, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will take over and assist you further.

Thank you for your patience, and we hope to help you resolve this issue soon!

Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math

Hello,

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

We checked your sitemap and we can see it is working properly without any issues.

In this case, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:

1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

3. Apply the following filter to your site to disable the transients cache for the sitemap:

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

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Once done, clear your website cache, remove all the submitted sitemap, and resubmit only the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.

If the issue persists, you can share a screenshot of the sub-sitemaps on your GSC account by using any image-sharing tool like https://imgur.com/upload so that we can check this further.

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Sure, let us know how this goes.

Meanwhile, if you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime so we can assist you further.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Please click on the /page-sitemap.xml and share a screenshot of the page so that we can check the issue further for you.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

The last read date for your page-sitemap is not updated.

Please give some time for Google to recrawl your page-sitemap and the “Last read” date should be updated as well as your other sub-sitemaps.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We anticipate hearing back from you.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.