Tag: Unable to find a sitemap to generate in Magento

  • Solve “Unable to find a sitemap to generate” in Magento

    Solve “Unable to find a sitemap to generate” in Magento

    In case you receive the error message

    Unable to find a sitemap to generate

    when trying to generate a Google Sitemap for an existing entry in Magento make sure to check that the sitemap ID generated is set correctly, i.e. not equal to 0 (zero).

    In this particular Magento 1.9.1.0 setup the ID for the first sitemap wrongly was set to 0 on generation via Catalog / Google Sitemap, thus breaking the sitemap generation process through the Generate option: magento-google-sitemap-id-0-unable-to-find-sitemap-to-generate

    Correct Sitemap ID in Database

    Manually setting the sitemap ID in the database to 1 for the first sitemap solved this problem:

    Magento Google Sitemap ID 1 correct

     

    Magento Google Sitemap generated successfully

     

     

    Still, it’s strange that no error message was displayed when creating the first sitemap entry through Catalog / Google Sitemap.

    Has anybody else experienced this behavior?