[SOLVED] Google Site-map Generator

buzz628 · #1 Jun 30, 2010, 06:25 PM

Just installed this plugin and created the sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz files setting the permissions up via CoreFTP LE client.

After activating the plugin, I go into Settings --> XML- Sitemap and I get a nothing. Nothing shows up in the middle and so I am not able build the sitemap even once.

Running Atahualpa 3.5.1

Any ideas?

juggledad · #2 Jun 30, 2010, 06:44 PM

did you follow the directions in the plugin documentation? It worked for me.

buzz628 · #3 Jun 30, 2010, 07:43 PM

I went through it again and again but still nothing.

Where did I most likely go wrong?

juggledad · #4 Jun 30, 2010, 08:05 PM

did you ' Edit or publish a post or click on Rebuild Sitemap on the Sitemap Administration Interface'

buzz628 · #5 Jun 30, 2010, 08:15 PM

I went ahead and posted an article but still nothing.

I am not able to see the Sitemap admin page because when I go to it under the Settings, I get a blank page (well except for all the stuff on the left.)

I even went into the settings for this plugin itself and I get the same blank page

juggledad · #6 Jun 30, 2010, 09:44 PM

Maybe a plugin conflict. Disable all your other plugins

buzz628 · #7 Jun 30, 2010, 11:53 PM

That didn't work either.

I've tried uninstalling it multiple times. I tried it in multiple browsers. I don't understand.

This is the URL when I get the blank body:

http://toddscabinets.com/wp-admin/op...or/sitemap.php

buzz628 · #8 Jul 3, 2010, 01:14 AM

I solved it! By accident...

I was playing around trying to get this to work and all of a sudden when I tried to access the Plugin section from the left menu I started getting a white screen with the 500 error Server error.

So I did a search on that and found some posts that solved that problem. I use 1and1 for my hosting and it seems that the default php version they use is php4. (I went to the FAQs and saw that they are going to change the default to php5 in the 3QTR of 2010. We'll see). Anyway, I went in and added an entry in the existing .htaccess file in my root folder to get it to run on php5 as was suggested and it worked. Not only did it fix my 500 error problem but I went in and installed the Google XML Site-map plugin, followed all the instructions and it worked fine.

This is what I did:

By default Apache uses PHP 4 for .php extension. If you don't want to rename all your
scripts to .php5 you can do the following:
Create a .htaccess file and place the following line AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in it.

Thanks for trying to help me. I hope this solution sticks.