Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Rank Math generates the sitemap in the following format: (http://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml)
Since your sitemap is giving a 404 error please follow these steps:
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. After that, remove all your sitemap/s from Google Search Console and submit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).
Once done, clear your website and server’s cache (if any) and wait for Google to crawl the website again and see if that helps.
Let us know how that goes.
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.
Thank you.
