Sitemap Not Available

[ethanosullivan]

I had an issue with my Sitemap with the recent update. It used to work before with my configuration in my netlify.toml.

When I tried to visit my sitemap, I would end up with a 404 page. Previously, I did not define the buildDir in the past because the default value worked for me. After reading issue #33, I set my buildDir to "./" and that loads my sitemap. However, it's blank.

I changed it to buildDir = "publish" like the documentation, but I get the 404 again.

Here's my config:

# Sitemap
[[plugins]]
package = "@netlify/plugin-sitemap"

[plugins.inputs]
buildDir = "publish"
prettyURLs = true
trailingSlash = true
exclude = [
    "**/404.html"
]

Please let me know the default buildDir to use. I have my repo hosted on GitHub, but it's private.

[erezrokah]

Hi @ethanosullivan, where the html files for your site are located? Can you share the repo structure?

[ethanosullivan]

In the root of my GitHub repo, here's what it looks like:

[ethanosullivan]

Hey @erezrokah - just checking in on an update on this issue. I tried searching on Netlify what the correct buildDir should be, but I haven't found anything as of yet.

[erezrokah]

Sorry @ethanosullivan, missed your last comment. buildDir should point to the directory where your static HTML files are located. In your case I would try buildDir: "."

[ethanosullivan]

That seems to work. However, the <loc> tags are only showing my domain and not the full path to the URL. Here's what it looks like:

...
    <url>
        <loc>https://ethanosullivan.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2020-11-09T14:01:05Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://ethanosullivan.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2020-11-09T14:01:05Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://ethanosullivan.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2020-11-09T14:01:05Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://ethanosullivan.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2020-11-09T14:01:05Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
...

I do have 4 pages for my website, but you can see that it only shows the path as https://ethanosullivan.com/

[ethanosullivan]

Did you get a chance to see my last comment @erezrokah ?

[ethanosullivan]

Checking in again @erezrokah - any updates? This is broken on all of my sites that use this plugin

[erezrokah]

Sorry for the late reply @ethanosullivan.
Do you mind sharing a public repo reproducing this issue? It will make it easier to debug

[ethanosullivan]

Here you go @erezrokah:

https://github.com/ethanosullivan/example.com

I added a dummy website with plenty of pages and the sitemap plugin. You'll ee the results are the same.

[ethanosullivan]

While you're testing out my test repo, is there a way to run the plugin on a previous version that is working? I activate the plugin through the netlify.toml file and don't use any CLI to run my websites.

[erezrokah]

Hi @ethanosullivan, you can always install a specific plugin version via npm install @netlify/plugin-sitemap@<version> (e.g. npm install @netlify/plugin-sitemap@v0.4.0).

[ethanosullivan]

That requires commands (CLI) - there's no other way? How's the progress going with finding a solution?

[erezrokah]

Hi @ethanosullivan sorry for the delay, this should be fixed by #41

[ethanosullivan]

I republished my website with the following setitngs, but I still get the same issue:

# Sitemap
[[plugins]]
package = "@netlify/plugin-sitemap"

[plugins.inputs]
buildDir = "."
prettyURLs = true
trailingSlash = true
exclude = [
    "**/404.html"
]

Is there a specific value I should use for the buildDir?

[erezrokah]

I republished my website with the following setitngs, but I still get the same issue:

Hi @ethanosullivan, there is a time gap (which we are working to fix) between publishing a new plugin version until it is available in our CI. I'll update this issue once the new version is available.

[erezrokah]

Hi @ethanosullivan, this should be fixed. Do you mind re-testing? buildDir = "." should stay the same

[ethanosullivan]

I checked all of my websites after redeplying them. I see the sitemap is working again, thanks.

Just as a heads up, the README should be updated. It's showing up as buildDir = "public" and it should default to the root directory if that hasn't been implemented already.