Comments on: Installing Drupal’s Google Sitemaps Module

By: S

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:38:27 +0000

Hi,

I also faced this problem. The sitemap.xml file is empty(even after cron jobs) and parse error is generated in firefox.

I tried to change the file permissions to 777. But no use.

The solution is removing / slash !

Thanks for your help.

By: Puraz

Puraz — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:37:52 +0000

Hey Gerard

Thanks for this write up. Insightful and informative. I didn’t run into any problems, my sitemap worked without a problem, but it was good to know that this module works.

Thanks again.
Cheers.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:08:37 +0000

Finley – I emailed this answer to you, but am posting it here for completeness (and so that people don’t think I ignore the comments!):

If the sitemap.xml file exists and is blank, perhaps the system doesn’t have write access to it? Maybe try giving it CHMOD 777 to open up the permissions and try to generate the sitemap again.

Also, make sure that sitemap happens as part of your Cron run and that cron runs regularly for your site – it’ll keep the sitemap up to date as well as perform other optimisations that keep your Drupal installation happy.

By: finley

finley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:58:15 +0000

Hi Gerard,
I have the same problem, with many drupal 5 installation that can produce just empy sitemaps.
Changing tmp dir doesn’t help me much.
Any other idea?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:33:25 +0000

Great post, Gerard.

Your advice about the /tmp directory is especially useful. I learned the hard way that permissions issues on that directory can cause the installation to fail miserably.

For instance, if you happen to have your Drupal site hosted elsewhere and another of your hosting company’s customers also uses Drupal and the Sitemaps module, the other customer might have already created the directory this module wants to use by default. In that situation, the directory will probably only be writable by the first user’s account, meaning the second user is SOL…

Unless, of course, they follow your advice and change the temporary directory path to one relative to their own Drupal installation.

Again, great post.

Justin

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