Sitemap status “couldn’t fetch” in Google Search Console

Hello there,

I am sorry to say that this did not work as well; I have tried renaming the url, but the suggested pattern in the documentation (https://domain.com/?sitemap=1) actually led to my homepage; I have tried submitting it anyway to GSC (though it didn’t make much sense) but the error persisted, so after half a day I resubmitted the usual https://examplesite.com/sitemap_index.xml to the console.

The problem is still there… anything else that can be done?

Many thanks for your patience,

Clodie

Hello and many thanks for replying.

I have contacted my hosting service again and they point out the following:

-GoogleBot can access the website- several successful requests were logged today (while any address of my site returns a timeout error on https://view.hugo-decoded.be/ );

-Making sure that there would be only one redirect form each varitaion to the https://examplesite.com/sitemap_index.xml variation entails changing the preferred address of the site to the https://www.examplesite.com variation, and I do not want to do that.

I really have no idea what to do next.

Thanks again,

Clodie

Hello there,

I am happy to say that today my hosting service has found the way to redirect all the url variations to the preferred one without creating double redirections, and that after resubmission, the error in GSC is finally gone.

Many thanks for your patience and help,

Clodie