Ideal Settings for Sitemaps

Hi,

For some reason https://www.hundetraining-mit-roya.at/local-sitemap.xml is showing an 404 error.

I am not sure if this is a caching error of if local-sitemap.xml hasn’t been created yet. (The RankMath Local SEO module is currently disabled, but the settings still show minimum Local SEO fields.)

Could you please check is the following settings in W3 Total Cache are ok:

Performance > page cache >

Never cache the following pages:

([a-z0-9_\-]*)?\.xml
[a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\.(xml|xsl|html)(\.gz)?
index\.php
sitemap(_index)?\.xml(\.gz)?
wp-.*\.php

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Non-trailing slash pages:

([a-z0-9_\-]+)?sitemap\.xsl
[a-z0-9_\-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml(\.gz)?
sitemap(_index)?\.xml(\.gz)?

Cache the specified pages even if they don’t have trailing slash.

(NOTE: shoudn’t this be removed? As I don’t want these to cache?)

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Purge sitemaps: ([a-z0-9_\-]*?)sitemap([a-z0-9_\-]*)?\.xml

Specify a regular expression that matches your sitemaps.

(NOTE: Is this still recommended? As I don’t want these to cache?)

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Performance > minify > Advanced >

Never minify the following pages:

sitemap(_index)?\.xml(\.gz)?
[a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\.(xml|xsl|html)(\.gz)?
([a-z0-9_\-]*)?\.xml

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Thanks!