SitemapXML v.2

Ok so I would like to use this with Ultimate URLs but cannot. I have to turn it off. But then for some reason, see my previous post about why google webmaster tools is not indexing the site.

When I run this with Ultimate URLs, after a while I set a internal server error. Here is the error

[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapezpages.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapmainpage.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapmanufacturers.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/modules/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_products.php on line 122
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapproducts_reviews.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapreviews.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemaptestimonials.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759

Here is the line in question

$this->fp = fopen($path . $filename, 'w+');

Here is what is produced before the error

Name Size Last modified Permissions Type Items Comments Action
sitemap.xml open sitemap in new window 0 11/29/2016 00:41:08 0644 Read Only!!! Ignored Delete
sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml open sitemap in new window 554660 11/29/2016 00:48:19 0644 UrlSet 3019 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapezpages.xml open sitemap in new window 3428 11/29/2016 00:48:19 0644 UrlSet 19 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapmainpage.xml open sitemap in new window 688 11/29/2016 00:48:19 0644 UrlSet 1 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapmanufacturers.xml open sitemap in new window 72769 11/29/2016 00:48:19 0644 UrlSet 409 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml open sitemap in new window 1343007 11/29/2016 00:48:33 0644 UrlSet 5000 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapproducts000.xml open sitemap in new window 1288686 11/29/2016 00:48:41 0644 UrlSet 5000 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapproducts001.xml open sitemap in new window 1372417 11/29/2016 00:48:52 0644 UrlSet 5000 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapproducts002.xml open sitemap in new window 1379430 11/29/2016 00:49:03 0644 UrlSet 5000 ViewTruncateDelete
sitemap/sitemapproducts003.xml open sitemap in new window 865501 11/29/2016 00:49:10 0644 Undefined!!!

travbacon:

Ok so I would like to use this with Ultimate URLs but cannot.
Why? You can test SitemapXML with Ultimate URLs there - http://test.zen-cart.su/admin-demo/sitemapxml.php?gID=31
Login: demo
Password: demo2016
http://test.zen-cart.su/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml&rebuild=yes

travbacon:

[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapezpages.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapmainpage.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapmanufacturers.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/modules/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_products.php on line 122
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapproducts_reviews.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemapreviews.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759
[29-Nov-2016 00:47:53] PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/sitemap/sitemaptestimonials.xml): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/includes/classes/sitemapxml.php on line 759

This is a permission error. Who needs to own the files for them to be writable by the server? You may need to change the ownership of the sitemap directory and the various sitemap files or change their permissions so they are writable. If you recently upgraded your server (or if your host did), there may be a change in how permissions need to be set.

Hello all,
I got recently a problem, and I will be very thankful for assistance.
I am a relative novice and almost ignorant in this field, so I am mostly use the services of a freelancer from Fiverr. Even so, it looks that he cannot fix it too.
I am on 1.5.4
At Search Console (Google) I get the following message: /https://www.petrutech.com/ Sitemap is HTML

Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

The sitemap is not HTML, and it was "produced" using Google (as far as I know).

I think that I found the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it:
If you type http://www.petrutech.com/sitemap.xml or https://www.petrutech.com/sitemap.xml it works fine.
However, if you write https://www.petrutech.com/sitemap.xml it shows an error.
I don’t know if it is a canonical or redirected error, but I assume that Google gets an error from the www, without the http or https.
It also may be in the site cache…

I will appreciate any help / assistance :smile:

This looks more like a server configuration error than a zencart problem. Could be any number of things including bad DNS A records to poor commands in htaccess.

I install Berezin's sitemap on scores of sites, and they function flawlessly within seconds. I also don't use clunky plugins like Ultimate URL's, but the more reliable (and comprehensive CEON URI MAPPING).

And (in my experience) Fiverr freelancers are mostly buffoon chancers who have little idea of how zencart works.

@ schoolboy
Thank you very much for replying!
I've found the "CEON URI MAPPING" link for downloading, but I couldn't find "Berezin's sitemap" link...
Anyway, even if I will download these plug ins, which really look great, I don't have the guts (and the knowledge) installing them :(, and I am totally dependent on the guy from Fiverr.
Indeed, a freelancer from Australia (found in ZC site...) installed and solved in the past most of my ZC problems.
He is a real "pro" but I cannot afford the price, as the sales are decreased to ZERO. From the first page at Google, I am now within 30th-40th...
From 190,000 results on Google, it dropped to 9000 within a month.
I know that "almost everything cheap is very expensive", but as I cannot afford a "pro", I must use the services from Fiverr :no:
Many thanks again,
petrutech

Hi,

Ridgh:

@ schoolboy
Thank you very much for replying!
I've found the "CEON URI MAPPING" link for downloading, but I couldn't find "Berezin's sitemap" link...
Anyway, even if I will download these plug ins, which really look great, I don't have the guts (and the knowledge) installing them :(, and I am totally dependent on the guy from Fiverr.
Indeed, a freelancer from Australia (found in ZC site...) installed and solved in the past most of my ZC problems.
He is a real "pro" but I cannot afford the price, as the sales are decreased to ZERO. From the first page at Google, I am now within 30th-40th...
From 190,000 results on Google, it dropped to 9000 within a month.
I know that "almost everything cheap is very expensive", but as I cannot afford a "pro", I must use the services from Fiverr :no:
Many thanks again,
petrutech

If you really need help, I'll try to help you. They came to me in private access to the FTP.

Thank you a_berezin
I just sent the PM :)
Many thanks in advance!

Ridgh:

@ schoolboy
Thank you very much for replying!
I've found the "CEON URI MAPPING" link for downloading, but I couldn't find "Berezin's sitemap" link...
Anyway, even if I will download these plug ins, which really look great, I don't have the guts (and the knowledge) installing them :(, and I am totally dependent on the guy from Fiverr.
Indeed, a freelancer from Australia (found in ZC site...) installed and solved in the past most of my ZC problems.
He is a real "pro" but I cannot afford the price, as the sales are decreased to ZERO. From the first page at Google, I am now within 30th-40th...
From 190,000 results on Google, it dropped to 9000 within a month.
I know that "almost everything cheap is very expensive", but as I cannot afford a "pro", I must use the services from Fiverr :no:
Many thanks again,
petrutech

I know the feeling... I have had times where it seemed I just could not afford the cost of a real expert. I see Andrew has offered to help - you could not be in better hands, He is very knowledgeable.

But looking at the issue of falling ranking... The URL re-write and sitemap.xml are not the main reason you have lost ranking. We have some sites that have never used URL re-write, and on some sites we generate a xml sitemap using one of the many online services that do this for free. (https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/). Our sites get good rankings regardless.

Since 21 April 2015, Google has been giving much more attention to these areas:

1, Mobile Responsiveness - sites that are not compliant with mobile efficiency factors are starting to drop down the rankings - not because Google drops them down, but because your competitors are Improving their sites faster than you are. They are "leap-frogging" you and this is the major cause of steady falls in SE ranking.
2. Pagespeed. The faster your site loads, the better the search engines (and customers) like it. Faster sites will get more favourable ranking than slower sites.
3. Structured data markup. While this is not yet having a major impact on results ranking, the use of structured data makes your content more "understandable" to google and it will know how to place your links into search results that are more relevant to the search terms a person uses. In many cases, it may appear you are climbing the rankings, but the reality is that competitors are falling lower - you are now doing the leap-frogging.

To me, these three issues are amongst the more important, so we focus on getting the site's software to comply with what is now expected by Google.

Sure... get the sitemap and URL issue sorted out - but the real issues with good ranking are in 1, 2, and 3 above.

@schoolboy,
Thank you very much again,
Yes, I certainly know that I am in "good hands" if Andrew takes care about this issue :)

 1, Mobile Responsiveness - sites that are not compliant with mobile efficiency factors are starting to drop down the rankings - not because Google drops them down, but because your competitors are Improving their sites faster than you are. They are "leap-frogging" you and this is the major cause of steady falls in SE ranking.
2. Pagespeed. The faster your site loads, the better the search engines (and customers) like it. Faster sites will get more favourable ranking than slower sites.
3. Structured data markup. While this is not yet having a major impact on results ranking, the use of structured data makes your content more "understandable" to google and it will know how to place your links into search results that are more relevant to the search terms a person uses. In many cases, it may appear you are climbing the rankings, but the reality is that competitors are falling lower - you are now doing the leap-frogging.

To me, these three issues are amongst the more important, so we focus on getting the site's software to comply with what is now expected by Google.

1. Mobile Responsiveness: I am checking now every page, (the site is in 6 languages...). It takes some time, but as anyway there are not sales, I have plenty of time.
2. Page speed: I am using a free site, panda, for minimizing the pictures in each page. This is the only thing that I can do. I know that the cache size has influence too, but I assume (?) that it is optimized by the "Fiverr Guy". However, as I suspect, one of the problems is resizing pictures to thumbnails. Most of my pictures are 500px X 500PX. Most thumbnails are 80px X 80px... there are also other sizes. I assume that it influences the page speed too.
3. Structured data markup: here is a problem named... IGNORANCE :( I read this term several times, googled for it, but it is still unclear to me, especially how to do it in practice, especially in the 6 languages.

BTW, another "Fiverr" tried to insert the "hreflang". Don't even ask what mess it did after inserting it... It took a month or more to "clean" it. Nothing worked, so I gave up using it... even that I know it could help somehow.

One more issue is my main page "animated gif". I have used to use an swf file, but couldn't make it mobile responsive. I tried the "marquee" trick - and it was a total fiasco. However, I know that it is an issue - it is relative big - but I am trying to find a better solution, without any success.

Many thanks again!

Hi,

Ridgh:

Thank you a_berezin
I just sent the PM :)
Many thanks in advance!
Check now Google Search Console.

You guys are GREAT!!! :smartalec:
Within several hours I already "felt" the change!
4 people already found the site, all from Google! Unbelievable!
1000 THANKS!!!

Ridgh:

You guys are GREAT!!! :smartalec:
Within several hours I already "felt" the change!
4 people already found the site, all from Google! Unbelievable!
1000 THANKS!!!

As I said earlier, there was a bug in the redirect in .htaccess.
Because of this error, the site not only dropped out of the index, but there were errors when you go to him, because of what the visitors just could not get to the site.

Hi, thanks for this contribution. I'm receiving an error: "News Box Manager Sitemap. WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again." when I try rebuild all the sitemap.xml files (admin/tools/sitemap Xml). Using ZC 1.5.5b.

Checked that /sitemap/ has 7777 permissions. Also installed sql patch.

Hi,

schoolboy:

Since 21 April 2015, Google has been giving much more attention to these areas:

1, Mobile Responsiveness - sites that are not compliant with mobile efficiency factors are starting to drop down the rankings - not because Google drops them down, but because your competitors are Improving their sites faster than you are. They are "leap-frogging" you and this is the major cause of steady falls in SE ranking.
2. Pagespeed. The faster your site loads, the better the search engines (and customers) like it. Faster sites will get more favourable ranking than slower sites.
3. Structured data markup. While this is not yet having a major impact on results ranking, the use of structured data makes your content more "understandable" to google and it will know how to place your links into search results that are more relevant to the search terms a person uses. In many cases, it may appear you are climbing the rankings, but the reality is that competitors are falling lower - you are now doing the leap-frogging.

To me, these three issues are amongst the more important, so we focus on getting the site's software to comply with what is now expected by Google.

Sure... get the sitemap and URL issue sorted out - but the real issues with good ranking are in 1, 2, and 3 above.
Yes, it's true. But first we must get tired of all the errors on the site, remove all duplicates, all broken links, all unnecessary redirects, build unique meta tags, etc. etc. etc. And then we can think about fine-tuning.

Hi,

GavinHeron:

Hi, thanks for this contribution. I'm receiving an error: "News Box Manager Sitemap. WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again." when I try rebuild all the sitemap.xml files (admin/tools/sitemap Xml). Using ZC 1.5.5b.

Checked that /sitemap/ has 7777 permissions. Also installed sql patch.

Module "News Box Manager" is the last time I had seen more than 10 years ago. It is better to disable it in the sitemapxml plugins settings.

Hi Andrew,
Please check your PM...
Thank you!

I am on zencart v1.5.5a. Just downloaded & installed the newest sitemap plugin. The site works fine. When I try to log into admin, the login screen is blank. No way to log into admin. I have deleted all the sitemap files from my admin folder and I can now log in again. Anybody know what is up?

hflsales:

I am on zencart v1.5.5a. Just downloaded & installed the newest sitemap plugin. The site works fine. When I try to log into admin, the login screen is blank. No way to log into admin. I have deleted all the sitemap files from my admin folder and I can now log in again. Anybody know what is up?

https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?124-blank-page

Especially 2.a.

jeking:

https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?124-blank-page

Especially 2.a.

There are error logs but I have no idea what they mean. Just a bunch of file names, etc. And they have a lot of sitemap errors in them.