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lehrerfreund
Posted: 01 April 2007 07:54 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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hi,

i still have problems to verify my sitemap, as described here (post 21).

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 1 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

when i search the forums i have the impression, that the wiki-entry “Sitemaps” doesn’t work for a lot of people here. (btw: that on this wiki-page there is no “last-change”-date makes the thing uncomfortable).

so i want to ask: is there anywhere a simple description with actual code-snippets, how i can make google-sitemaps work for a quite average EE-installation?!

thx in advance

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Posted: 01 April 2007 07:58 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I think it just varies a bit depending on your server config.  I did mine based on the wiki, and while I tweaked it to suite my needs, it was pretty straightforward.  But I suspect that may be somewhat host dependent.

Can you link to the actual sitemap- I’d like to see what’s being output.

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Posted: 01 April 2007 08:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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the file /sitemap.php is here: http://www.lehrerfreund.de/sitemap.php

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<?php

// Prevent content to be cached
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Content was generated on past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); //Content is always modified

// Inform user agent that content is XML and is UTF-8 encoded
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');

// Read content from template and show it
@readfile ('http://www.lehrerfreund.de/in/schule/google-sitemap/')
?>

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Posted: 01 April 2007 08:21 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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The included file looks good- who’s your host?

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Posted: 01 April 2007 08:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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i have a server @ SpaceNet, a german, good hoster. is there anything i could ask them for?

so the error occurred on an “old” = other server also ...

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Posted: 01 April 2007 08:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Hm- I’m wondering if they allow readfile.  I’m not sure this will work- but let’s see if we can get an error.  So in your php file- change it to:

readfile('http://www.lehrerfreund.de/in/schule/google-sitemap/');


Note the semicolon as well.

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Posted: 01 April 2007 08:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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now i get a slightly different error:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

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Posted: 01 April 2007 09:03 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Looks like readfile isn’t supported by your host (a number of hosts disable this, as they consider it a security concern).

There are workaround instructions for this in the wiki entry on Google sitemaps.  Look down near the bottom for the code underneath “For you fine folks on Dreamhost.com, since they don’t allow @readfile you may want to try this: “

After you try that, make sure that there are no extra spaces or returns before the opening “<?php” or after the closing “?>”

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Posted: 01 April 2007 09:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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It’s throwing php errors- if you do a reveal code you’ll spot:

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in sitemap.php on line 11

In other words- the server is one of those that won’t let you use readfile.  I haven’t had try to work around that- but on the wiki link, they suggest using curl if it’s available.  So- I’d give that a try:

<?php
// Prevent content to be cached
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Content was generated on past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); //Content is always modified

// Inform user agent that content is XML and is UTF-8 encoded
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');

// Read content from template and show it
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.lehrerfreund.de/in/schule/google-sitemap/');
curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
?>


Make sense what’s going on with this?

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Posted: 01 April 2007 09:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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YES! this did it (but i had to add a semicolon in the line

curl_exec($curl_handle);

thanks a lot!

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Posted: 01 April 2007 09:16 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Sweet!  Glad you got it figured out- and thanks for the tweak- I’ll edit my code in case anyone else copy/pastes!

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