CODEWITHSUNDEEP
sitemap
user188962
user188962

Reputation:

Does sitemaps have to have a capital S?

Do I need capital S in sitemap_index.xml and sitemap.xml when submitting them, or doesn't it matter?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 916

Answers (3)

Guffa
Guffa

Reputation: 700152

That depends on the web server.

Some servers (e.g. Linux) differentiates between upper and lower case, so Sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml can exist in the same folder, and are separate from each other. Other servers (e.g. Windows) doesn't make a difference between upper and lower case, so Sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml reference the same file.

If you reference the site map from your robots.txt file, you can call it Mamma.mu if you lilke.

Upvotes: 1

Wooble
Wooble

Reputation: 89847

sitemap_index.xml should generally be in all lowercase at the root of your web server. I don't believe any of the submission forms for search engines care what the filename is at all.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Borgwardt
Michael Borgwardt

Reputation: 346250

If you submit the sitemap directly to a search engine, it does not matter at all.

Alternatively, you can declare the URL of the sitemap in your robots.txt like this:

Sitemap: <sitemap_url>

Using the full URL (including http:// prefix)

Upvotes: 1

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