Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math for help with your sitemaps.
You can remove the incorrect sitemap from your Google Search Console (GSC) and submit the correct one. Google has a guide on how to submit your sitemap: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001#zippy=%2Csubmit-a-sitemap
I hope that helps. Please let us know if you have questions. We are here to help.
Thanks for your answer
This is not an issue with GSC.
This is an issue of how RankMath interprets Multisite in a different way than GSC.
In GSC I have
!) A domain property:
example.com
and
2) A different property for each subsite
example.com/es example.com/en example.com/ar
In GSC the base url (example.com/ar) for each subsite property is predetermined for the sitemap and can’t be changed
In RankMath for the subsite example.com/ar the sitemap appears as the sitemap of the domain example.com not as sitemap of the subsite:
https://example.com/post-sitemap.xml
In GSC in this property I have example.com/ar/ and it can’t be changed. As you can see the sitemap has not /ar/ in the URL
Hello,
Thank you for the additional information. It helped your issue.
There may be a sitemap rewrites issue with your on your server settings. To confirm this, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Thanks Nigel
I need an email for setting user temporary login
Hello,
You can use s******@r*********** to create the login.
Please add the login link in the sensitive data section.
We look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
I tried to log in to your site but your firewall is blocking the access.
Please disable the firewall and let us know when we can log in.
We really look forward to helping you.
Hi,
I had disable the FW rule, let me know if you are able to log in. Thanks
Hello,
I logged in to your multisite dashboard and checked the list of websites. there is no /ar/ site as you mentioned. Please see the list of subsites I found in sensitive data.
I tested the sitemaps for each of the sites on the list and it is working correctly except for ‘/ab/’ where Rank Math disactivated.
I hope that helps. If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask. We are here to help.
Hi Nigel
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.
I am aware. I know that the /ar/ site is also the main site.
The point is that when I created the Multisite in 2014 the word /blog/ was hard coded for the main site, I was enable to change it so I redirect the main site example.com to example.com/es/ years letter wp changed /blog/ to editable so I decided to use /ar/ instead of /blog/
This was always confusing and they didn’t update the KB https://wordpress.org/support/article/multisite-network-administration/
GSC recognizes the /ar/ subsite and I can track it separately, but I can’t upload the site map. I have to include it in the main property.
Thanks again.
hello,
Thank you for the further explanation. The issue complicated indeed.
One solution could be to add code that automatically creates a copy of https://yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml and saves it to https://yoursite.com/ar/sitemap_index.xml
Unfortunately the implementation of such a solution is beyond the scope of our support.
I hope that helps.
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue.
If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
