Sitemap problem

[rab]

Hey Guys got a problem with my sitemap generation, from what i can gather the install never generated the file or couldnt create it via the admin build sitemap button, so i simply created a file called sitemap.xml and chmod it to 777.

Once i reran the admin build sitemap button it completed the process with a success message so i though i had fixed it, however now when i check the url out www.mysitename.com/sitemap.xml i get this error message

Error!
XML parsing failed

XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 4, Character: 0)

Reparse document as HTML
Error:invalid character
Specification:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char
1: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
2: {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20\par
3: }
4:

any ideas or clues guys?

BTW - awsome job on Get Simple CMS me likes a lot

[ccagle8]

Thanks rab! sorry you are having a sitemap problem... can you attach the sitemap that it generated so i can see it?

[rab]

yep sure no problem, and no worries i dont think its anything to do with the cms more so with the way my webhosts are configured perhaps, would explain my problems i had with the .htaccess file and i checked a few of the other sites set up under the forum section for sites using get simple and all their sitemaps worked fine.

okay i think i attached the file correctly, thanks for the time to look at this.

[rab]

Ok ccagle thanks for looking at this, but i did just find out the error, it was to do with how i created the sitemap.xml file using wordpad rather than notepad and the embedded .rtf of that file was causing the error.

It's weird i didnt realise there was any kind of formatting from doing that, so i created a new sitemap.xml using notepad instead and it worked fine.

Thanks again

[exmethix]

i also have a problem with the sitemap. First i got an error, that it could not be created... so i created one sitemap.xml at ftp root. now the backed says, that sitemap creation was successfull and 4 search engines have been informed.

The problem is now, that my sitemap.xml file is always empty.

Do you have an idea how to fix that?

[iggy]

thanks, this solved my problem with sitemap not working 777 is a must...

[dangerin]

i also have a problem with the sitemap. First i got an error, that it could not be created... so i created one sitemap.xml at ftp root. now the backed says, that sitemap creation was successfull and 4 search engines have been informed.

The problem is now, that my sitemap.xml file is always empty.

Do you have an idea how to fix that?

i have the same problem and when i try to see the sitemap tha page rest all in white and stop the site .
Bye

[ccagle8]

what are the permissions on the sitemap.xml file?

[dangerin]

sitemap.xml is at 777 how i've read on a lot of forums
i'm using the beta version of GS that it appear better of the last stable