I'm having a problem with my sitemap. I know I strictly don't need a site map as my site in question is only a single page, but when reading on the web some people say it's not necessary and other say it is, but that's by the by!
I created my sitemap manually and uploaded to a test server, everything was working well. I uploaded it onto the actual server and thought all would be fine. I run woorank's website review and it says that the sitemap doesn't exist. I did the woorank test on the test server and it found the server.
If I try and browse to the sitemap on the server I get a 404 error saying the file isn't found. Browse to the sitemap on the test server, displays it fine!
Thought it might have been the way I created, so used https://www.xml-sitemaps.com to create the sitemap, same issue.
Checked that the file is a text file.
Hostinger, the hosting company, says there shouldn't be an issue.
This is the sitemap.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<!-- created with Free Online Sitemap Generator www.xml-sitemaps.com -->
<url>
<loc>https://www.xxxxxxx.co.uk/</loc>
<lastmod>2019-12-10T21:38:07+00:00</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>
Any body have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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Solved my issue. Whilst trying to solve another issue, in my .htaccess file I came across some lines that were mentioning xml, some I commented them out and vola! Access to my xml file again!