Sitemap plugin not working

Prosper

Google sent several emails stating that Googlebot cannot access sitemap of forum.
I have "Sitemaps 1.2.1" plugin already installed on forum and when I click on the dashboard http://websitehere/sitemapindex.xml go the error message below

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://naijanetwork.com/sitemapindex.xml
Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-^
Do any person know reason for this and how to correct it?

peregrine

if you were using

version 1.2 of this plugin addtexttobox version 1.2 produces xml errors - sorry if this was the issue

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/addtexttobox-plugin

please upgrade to version 1.3 of addtextotbox and it will NOT create xml errors.

thx to @Bleistivt for reporting the issue of ver 1,.2 to me.

Bleistivt

There is a space before the XML declaration, which is not allowed.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

The sitemap plugin doesn't do that.
It's probably extraneous whitespace after a closing php tag (which shouldn't be used), possibly in a plugin.

Try disabling every plugin except the sitemap plugin, then enable each one seperately to find out which one is causing it.

Prosper

Thank you for your comment.
I have disabled all plugins and enabled again but could not find the plugin that caused the problem.
Do you know any other thing I can do to solve this problem?

Bleistivt

All of your pages have a space prepended, have you made any changes to the core or do you include additional php files?

You can find a faulty php file with this snippet:
https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:findbadphp.php

UKguy

HI, so it needs to be: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> or: <?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ???

Where is this code located so i can edit it?

x00

you don't have a site map sz1hosting try not confuse the issues.

You do have a white space error but it applies to the whole site.

peregrine

if you were using

version 1.2 of this plugin addtexttobox version 1.2 produces xml errors - sorry if this was the issue

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/addtexttobox-plugin

please upgrade to version 1.3 of addtextotbox and it will NOT create xml errors.

thx to @Bleistivt for reporting the issue of ver 1,.2 to me.

Prosper

Thanks to @Bleistivt for finding out the cause of sitemap problem which was cause by "Add Text to Box" plugin.
Thanks to @peregrine for immediate update to "Add Text to Box" plugin to solve sitemap problem.

peregrine

@Prosper said:
Thanks to Bleistivt for finding out the cause of sitemap problem which was cause by "Add Text to Box" plugin.
Thanks to peregrine for immediate update to "Add Text to Box" plugin to solve sitemap problem.

by the way if you ever have the same problem.

as others mentioned but to sum it up,

as mentioned before - just change to default theme, disable plugins and applications you downloaded (do NOT disable vanilla or conversations app) one by one and try an rss feed from your site, after you disable a plugin, test, and disable next plugin, etc. until error goes away. also try the default theme,

then try (substitute your version in domain name)

http://vanillaforums.org/discussions.rss

e.g.

http://naijanetwork.com/discussions.rss

and try .xml

http://naijanetwork.com/discussions.xml

see troubleshooting:

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/188810/#Comment_188810

if there is an xml error you will see. something like this

which may be caused by a closing ?> in the last line of a plugin. or a white space before the opening <? at the start of plugin code.

it could also be introduced in a theme or an application as well as a plugin.

peregrine

what is weird is this?

on @prosper site.

http://naijanetwork.com/discussions.rss - no feeds

http://naijanetwork.com/discussions.xml - shows info.

is this still a problem??

Prosper

@peregrine does /discussions.rss supposed to feed without a plugin by default?

peregrine

it should I believe.

also go to your categories page.

/index.php?p=/categories

and click on orange icon - it should work as well

Prosper

I use vanilla version 2.1.1 and don't have that icon on the forum. Is that normally?

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/categories/all

I think you have a different version than 2.1.1 as well.

also it probably depends if the category is marked as a root category (where it presumably wouldn't show)
as well as DisplayAs and category nesting depth.

in the edit categories section of dashboard.

and this is pretty bizarre - incorrect output in xml or and no feed.rss

http://www.naijanetwork.com/categories/politics.xml // xml formatting is off

http://www.naijanetwork.com/categories/politics/feed.rss // which creates problems here possibly

http://www.naijanetwork.com/index.php?p=/categories/politics/feed.rss // which creates problems here possibly

Prosper

@peregrine‌
I have upgraded to version 2.1.3 and now can see the RSS icon but still get this error when I click on the icon;

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 414 at column 190: Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 0 and channel
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Please idea on how to solve it?

Schryvers

http://www.tattootalk.nl/sitemapindex.xml - Works

http://www.tattootalk.nl/discussions.rss - Doesn't work

Same problem there? I dont wanna steal this topic so i only wanted to let you know i dont have a .rss they are not working.

So im gonna follow this topic cheers.