Sitemap.xml sample: route not working

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Hello,

Just started playing with v3. Nice work!

I have only run into one problem, probably a problem on my local server configuration but i would like to know how to debug the issue further.

I have followed the guide to create the basic sitemap (https://getkirby.com/docs/cookbook/seo/xmlsitemap) but whenever i load /sitemap.xml i get a 404 error.

I tracked it down to the route not being recognized. If i change the pattern value to something that is not sitemap.xml for example sitemapxml then it works. I imagine there’s gotta be some setting somewhere where my server is actually trying to load a file called sitemap.xml rather than go trough the routing? I thought that .htaccess took care of this already ( i haven’t changed it from the plainkit-master download).

Im running on localhost on MacOS X.

Any ideas? Thanks.

2

Are you using the built-in server? As far as I remember it has problems with dots in the route.

3

Yes i am. I’m running on Mojave 10.14.2

Ok, i’ll check it out again when i upload to my remote.

Thanks

4

Oddly, I was just having a similar problem, although working on a staging server rather than local, and I was getting a 404 regardless of the dot or not.

Strangely when I moved the sitemap routes into a plugin rather than in config.php they work perfectly.

5

Was a solution ever found for this? I’m seeing the same issue when creating the sitemap from the Cookbook.

6

Could you please post the contents of your config.php?

Please also indicate your Kirby version and environment!

7

Sure, I’m running Kirby 3.9.6.1 using the local PHP server (version 8.2.10) and I’m running on MacOS Ventura 13.5.2.

Here’s the output of me config file:

<?php

return [
    'debug'  => true,
    'home' => 'blog',
    'markdown' => [
        'extra' => true
    ],

    'routes' => [
        [
            'pattern' => '(:any)',
            'action'  => function($uid) {
                $page = page($uid);
                if(!$page) $page = page('blog/' . $uid);
                if(!$page) $page = site()->errorPage();
                return site()->visit($page);
            }
        ],
        [
            'pattern' => 'blog/(:any)',
            'action'  => function($uid) {
                go($uid);
            }
        ],
        [
            'pattern' => 'sitemap.xml',
            'action'  => function() {
                $pages = site()->pages()->index();
      
                // fetch the pages to ignore from the config settings,
                // if nothing is set, we ignore the error page
                $ignore = kirby()->option('sitemap.ignore', ['error']);
      
                $content = snippet('sitemap', compact('pages', 'ignore'), true);
      
                // return response with correct header type
                return new Kirby\Cms\Response($content, 'application/xml');
            }
          ],
          [
            'pattern' => 'sitemap',
            'action'  => function() {
              return go('sitemap.xml', 301);
            }
          ]
        ],
        'sitemap.ignore' => ['error'],
];

And here’s my sitemap snippet:

<?= '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'; ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <?php foreach ($pages as $p): ?>
        <?php if (in_array($p->uri(), $ignore)) continue ?>
        <url>
            <loc><?= html($p->url()) ?></loc>
            <lastmod><?= $p->modified('c', 'date') ?></lastmod>
            <priority><?= ($p->isHomePage()) ? 1 : number_format(0.5 / $p->depth(), 1) ?></priority>
        </url>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</urlset>
8

This also catches the sitemap/sitemap.xml path! You need to either place this at the end or modify the route like this:

	[
			'pattern' => '(:any)',
			'action'  => function($uid) {
				$page = page($uid);
				if(!$page) {
					$page = page('blog/' . $uid);
				}
				if ($page) {
					return site()->visit($page);

				}
				$this->next();
			}
		],
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9

That did it. Thank you!