Brizy appears to have broken sitemap.xml

Simon Norris

• December 22, 2022 11:31

I've been trying to access an XML sitemap for a day or two (after I discovered Google was unable to reach it).

Every vairant (yoast, AIO, wordpress native) of the sitemap is redirected via a 301 to the hompage. Disable Brizy and I can get a sitemap.

What is going wrong? We have devoted a lot of time to build a lot of content and we need this indexing.

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  KC George

  • December 22, 2022 12:34

  Hi Simon,

  Can you please share the URL of your website where you are facing this issue so that we can check?

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  Simon Norris

  • December 22, 2022 12:35

  Thank you contacting me!

  Ha, yes! That would have been a good idea

  https://www.little-fire.com

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  Simon Norris

  • December 22, 2022 12:36

  If you check the robots.txt you can see where the sitemap is supposed to be.

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  KC George

  • December 23, 2022 06:20
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  Hi Simon,

  You are right; your sitemap URL https://www.little-fire.com/sitemap_index.xml gets redirected to the homepage. However if you type the URL https://www.little-fire.com/?sitemap=1 you can see your sitemap. 

  Testing your sitemap URL at https://httpstatus.io/ shows that you have setup a 301 redirect

  Please consider these options to investigate how you may have setup a 301 redirect.

  1. Are you using the Redirection or a similar plugin? If so, please review the plugin’s list of redirect to find and remove the sitemap_index.xml redirect to the homepage.
  2. Please check if your .htaccess file in your site root has a redirect for the sitemap. You could refer to this article https://kriesi.at/support/topic/yoast-seo-xml-sitemap-view-redirecting-to-home-page/
  3. Take the help of your hosting company to remove the 301 redirect

  Brizy does not usually cause a URL redirect; hence it is very unlikely that the sitemap URL redirect has anything to do with Brizy.   

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  Simon Norris

  • December 23, 2022 09:43

  Mmmm, thank you that is helpful (and I do now have a workaround)

  … but I disabled every plugin one-by-one and the redirect was in place until I disabled Brizy (the very last plugin) - then the sitemap worked. Then I re-enabled Brizy and the 301 returned.

  Thank you for the yoast tip - I will implement that.

  My hosting firm are looking at this too.

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