I've got a small flask site for my old wow guild and I have been unsuccessful in getting google to read my sitemap.xml file. I was able to successful verify my site using googles Search Console and it seems to crawl it just fine but when I go to submit my sitemap, it lists the status as "Couldn't fetch".
I originally used a sitemap generator website (forgot which one) to create the file and then added it to my route file like this:
@main.route('/sitemap.xml')
def static_from_root():
return send_from_directory(app.static_folder, request.path[1:])
If I navigated to www.mysite.us/sitemap.xml it would display the expected results but google was unable to fetch it.
I then changed things around and started using flask-sitemap to generate it like this:
@ext.register_generator
def index():
yield 'main.index', {}
This also works fine when I navigate directly to the file but google again does not like this.
I'm at a loss. There doesn't seem to but any way to get help from google on this and so far my interweb searches aren't turning up anything helpful. Has anyone else dealt with this before?
For reference, here is the current sitemap link: www.renewedhope.us/sitemap.xml