Google Sitemaps on add-on domains

[JohnBoy]

Hi,

Has anyone else had problems getting Google sitemaps found / verified on their add on domains.

I have had no trouble with my main domain, but if i put the sitemap xml and verification html file in a folder of an add on, then give google http://www.myaddon.com/sitemap.xml they can't find it. It does show up in a browser, so it's there!!

Cheers,

john

[Serra]

Originally Posted by JohnBoy

Hi,

Has anyone else had problems getting Google sitemaps found / verified on their add on domains.

I have had no trouble with my main domain, but if i put the sitemap xml and verification html file in a folder of an add on, then give google http://www.myaddon.com/sitemap.xml they can't find it. It does show up in a browser, so it's there!!

Did you allow time for it to popagate?

[JohnBoy]

Hi,

The add on domain has been live for a few weeks on HG with no other problems.

The same problem has occured with a subdomain e.g http://sub.maindomain.com/sitemap.xml.

I don't know whether Yahoo have picked up the urllist.txt files.

Cheers,

John

[Serra]

Originally Posted by JohnBoy

Hi,

The add on domain has been live for a few weeks on HG with no other problems.

The same problem has occured with a subdomain e.g http://sub.maindomain.com/sitemap.xml.

Can you verify the domain? I'm able to verify a subdomin without a problem. I assume that means it could find a site map for it.

[JohnBoy]

Hi,

Ok, I can't get a verification html file verified on the add-on domain - Google say there is a problem with the 404 return page giving a 500 error or something which is a security risk.

I have then verified by using a META tag in the homepage, however they still can't find the sitemap.xml file.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

John

[ecu94dawg]

Hey,

Is the
store_into="/var/www/docroot/sitemap.xml.gz"
path correct? Cpanel treats add on domains and sub-domains like another folder in your root directory with htaccess redirects to propagate the domains. You may try to configure the sitemap path to something like

4ttp://maindomain.com/sub/sitemap.html
instead of
4ttp://sub.maindomain.com/sitemap.html

You may also find more information at goggle.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...generator.html

[Serra]

Originally Posted by ecu94dawg

Hey,
4ttp://maindomain.com/sub/sitemap.html
instead of
4ttp://sub.maindomain.com/sitemap.html

You may also find more information at goggle.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...generator.html

It shouldn't matter, the addon domain should be fine with www.addondomain.com/sitemap.xml.