Hello David,
I'm still on 13/03A and have a basic question. I searched through the first 3 pages of results, but not all 10 and didn't find the same situation. This is probably a server config issue and not related to the sitemap.php file, but it doesn't serve a 404 when there is no feed present. One merchant I had on one site closed their program and I removed the feed and deregistered it, but Google keeps telling me about a sitemap error.
If I visit the URL myself, I see <urlset/> when I'd expect to see a 404 error. But when I used the same sitemap URL as reported in GSC and I changed the sitemap URL to example.com/shop/sitemap.php?filename=gdrtekcuso.txt (made-up gibberish) it returns the same <urlset/> as the actual former sitemap does.
The PT shop is not in the root folder and I don't manage the httpd.conf file, so is there anything like an "if" function for sitemap.php that would deal with gone and/or unreal requests?
Thank you for all the great assists over the years.
2fer
Wow! Thanks, David, I'll get that up right away.
Thank you!
2fer
Hello 2fer,
It's no problem to return 404 for merchants that no longer exist - to do this, edit sitemap.php and look for the following code at line 2:
require("includes/common.php");...and REPLACE with:
require("includes/common.php");if (isset($_GET["filename"]))
{
$sql = "SELECT normalised_name FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE filename='".database_safe($_GET["filename"])."' LIMIT 1";
if (!database_querySelect($sql,$row))
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
print "<h1>404 Not Found</h1>";
exit();
}
}
Cheers,
David.
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