My Main sitemap and category sitemap and landing pages sitemap aren’t showing.

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  • Resolved Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    I’ll try every basic instruction your bot robot provided but still it’s not working. I use validate xml sitemap to check my website and it shows like this:-Incorrect http header content-type: “text/html; charset=UTF-8” (expected: “application/xml”)
    it is showing this error while validating xml sitemap of main and category sitemap and landing pages sitemap

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  • RankBot

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m sorry to hear that you are facing issues with your main sitemap, category sitemap, and landing pages sitemap not showing up correctly. The error message you mentioned, ‘Incorrect http header content-type: “text/html; charset=UTF-8” (expected: “application/xml”), indicates a problem with the content type of your sitemap.

    To resolve this issue, you can follow these steps:

    1. Flush Permalinks:

      • Navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Permalinks.
      • Click the Save Changes button without making any changes to flush the permalinks.

      Flush Permalinks Settings

    2. Flush Sitemap Settings:

      • Go to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings in your WordPress admin area.
      • Change the value in the Links Per Sitemap field. If it is 200, change it to 201 or any other number.
      • If the Links Per Sitemap option is unavailable, ensure you are in Advanced Mode in Rank Math.
      • Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

      Change Links Per Sitemap
      Save changes to sitemap settings

    After following these steps, please validate your sitemap again to check if the issue has been resolved. If you encounter any further difficulties, feel free to update this ticket for more assistance.

    Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

    Sources:
    Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
    How to Fix “Incorrect HTTP Header Content-Type” Error in Sitemaps » Rank Math
    Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap – Google Search Console » Rank Math
    Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math

    Jeremy

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

    Please follow the steps below:

    1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    3. Apply the following filter code to your site.

    
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

    Here’s how you can add filter to your WordPress site:https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

    Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.

    Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    Incorrect http header content-type: “text/html; charset=UTF-8” (expected: “application/xml”)
    I’m getting this in Validate XML Sitemap.

    Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    Will you please update the answer and fix the problem.

    Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    can I get assist from your side? I have been waiting for the past 3 days and even I have not got a single response from your side.

    Great

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    This error occurs when your sitemap is redirecting to another page or as in your case does not exist (and serves the 404 page).

    From our investigation, your homepage is showing a “Nothing found” error, which means that you do not have any content, posts or pages. This is the reason your sitemap is not working because Rank Math cannot generate a sitemap when there is no content to populate it with.

    When you add content, posts or pages, please follow the steps we shared earlier to regenerate the Rank Math sitemap again.

    We hope this helps clarify the issue. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

    RankBot

    1 year, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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