📘 This article explains how to locate sitemaps from SmartIndex's Generate Sitemaps. SmartIndex is part of Botify's Activation Suite, available with a Botify Pro or Enterprise plan.
Overview
Sitemap files are publicly accessible by design, meaning anyone who knows the URL can access them. For security and confidentiality reasons, sitemap URLs are not directly exposed in SmartIndex. This helps avoid accidental disclosure of internal or sensitive structure due to misconfiguration. To access the files produced by Generate Sitemaps, you will need to manually reconstruct the sitemap URL.
Accessing a Single Sitemap
To access an individual sitemap, use the following URL structure:
[host name]/[sitemap filename].xml.gz
💡The file name is what you identified in the Host Options of the Generate Sitemaps settings.
For example:
sitemap.mywebsite.com/sitemap_be_fr_mywebsite.xml.gz
Opening this URL will download the .xml.gz file to your device. You can then open or extract it using a compatible text editor or decompression tool.
Accessing a Sitemap Index
In some cases, there is a sitemap index file that references multiple individual sitemaps. To access the index, use the following structure:
[host name]/[sitemaps index filename].xml.gz
This file contains the list of URLs for all related sitemaps. To retrieve all sitemaps in the index:
Download the index file.
Open it to identify the individual sitemap file names or URLs.
Reconstruct and download each sitemap manually, following the same URL format.
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