Hi Matt. Thanks for the reply!
Your response reminded me to look elsewhere and I found the solution. A wildcard redirect was acting a little too wild! :-) Thanks for the recommend about the sitemap extensions, I will check out AceSEF too. David Roth On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matt Thomas <m...@betweenbrain.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm not aware of anything in Joomla's core that would redirect > sitemap.xml. I use that name on a few sites and have never had any issue > with Google not funding it. > > That said, Xmap works great as well as AceSEF ( > http://www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/acesef-joomla-seo-sef-urls). > > Hope that helps. > > Best, > > Matt > > Sent from my phone that uses an open source operating system. > On Jul 26, 2012 8:39 PM, "David Roth" <davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was given a sitemap.xml to upload. I uploaded to a Joomla 2.5 website, >> and it wasn't found by Google. I then did domain.com/sitemap.xml and it >> redirected to map.xml giving a 404 error of not found. I looked in the >> .htaccess and I don't see a mod_rewrite doing a redirect for sitemaps. >> >> Is this an internal Joomla thing by default that anything coming in for >> sitemap.xml gets redirected to map.xml? >> >> Figuring that things go better with a Joomla extension, I found xmap: >> http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/en/downloads/components/xmap >> >> Is xmap what most of you are using for a sitemap to keep Google happy? >> Thanks! >> >> David Roth >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >> > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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