Hey I posted this morning about getting traffic to my site, and someone suggested I get a sitemap. Well I am new at all this, and though I did everything write but messed up something because I have to fix whatever this is telling me to do. Someone please tell me how to fix this. The sitemap files could not be written! Make sure that the files "sitemap.xml" and / or "sitemap.xml.gz" are writable. You have two options to ensure this: * Make your blog root writable You can make your whole blog root folder writable and the plugin will create the files for you. You can do this by using a FTP program and setting CHMOD to 755 or 777 to your web-root folder. This folder is often named "htdocs", "html", "public" or "httpdocs". * Create the sitemap files and make them writable If you can't make your blog root folder writable or don't want to do so, you can create two new files, name them "sitemap.xml" and "sitemap.xml.gz", upload them to your blog root and use a FTP program to apply CHMOD 755 or 777 to them. To create these files, simply open Notepad, click on "File > Save As", choose "Filetype: All File" and enter "sitemap.xml" as the name. Repeat this step for "sitemap.xml.gz". * More information about changing file permissions Please look at the WordPress Codex or this toturial to get step by step advices for your FTP program or check the manual. Thanks, Noc
Did you change the folder/file permissions? If you are using something like smartftp, you just do 'properties' on the file/folder and change the permission to, in this case, 777.
Yea see I have no idea what your talking about. But where is the folder/file permissions, and how would I change it?
Ok your going to have to speak to me in easier terms haha. What is chmod, and what is an FTP program. Thank you soo much for your input though.
An FTP program is a piece of software that lets you put files on a Web server from your own computer. One of the best ones out there is FileZilla and can be downloaded here (if you're on Windows, grab the .exe or .zip file). Chmod is basically a file permission system. It tells the server what it can and cannot do with your files (read, write, and so on).
I am actually on a mac, and do you mean upload to the CPanel, because I just do that buy pushing upload in the CPanel.
No, cPanel is a script that runs on the server. What version of the Mac OS are you using? I'll see if I can hunt down a Mac-based FTP client you can use.
Create 2 blank files in Notepad, then save them as sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz Upload them to the www directory in cPanel with your magic upload button, this is where your sites main index.php file is. Click the sitemap.xml file name, over on the right there's a few links and one is "change permissions" click that. There's 9 check boxes, click them until the numbers say 755 and hit change. Repeat for sitemap.xml.gz Get an FTP program as Dan said, it makes life way easier.
The guy can use a normal command FTP on terminal or use the default ftp client in Finder. Of course some people would want to use Fetch etc.