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Does any of you have experienced problems with generating the sitemap due to using https instead of http?

I have 2 webshops (each own installation). One of those have a ssl certificate and uses https. I have added this code in the .htaccess to make the whole site use https:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Everytime I try to generate sitemap it gives me an error that it's unable to generate the sitemap

while on the other installation (which do not use https) I can generate it no problem

that's why I'm concluding at the moment that there is something wrong with the https settings but I have no clue how to fix it

David Manners
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  • What error? How are generating it? Of course you've checked file system permissions? –  Feb 12 '15 at 18:34
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    Try removing the htaccess lines you posted and enter your https address under System - Configuration - Web - Unsecure Base URL as well as Secure Base URL. – Simon Feb 12 '15 at 20:42
  • Hi there, thanks for your replies, when I create sitemap via - Catalog - Google sitemap - it creates the sitemap.xml (I can access it via ftp, but it's empty) the file permission is 666. Magento gives me the error "Unable to generate the sitemap" I have removed the code from my .htaccess file and added https to the secure/unsecure base url but it still doesn't generate the sitemap. Just have to add that the site works perfectly fine and uses https. – Jaap Hoogberg Feb 13 '15 at 12:37
  • You could try to use /media/ as a path for the sitemap.xml, because you should have write permissions on this folder. Although it should not be a permission problem if the file is created. If this does not help: https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/428/fundamentals-for-debugging-a-magento-store – Simon Feb 13 '15 at 14:12

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Are you using "sitemap.xml" as the filename? Magento gives you the option to enter a custom filename, but for some reason it will throw an error when you enter a different name.

If you have multiple stores, you can add them in different folders (like /en_US/ and /fr_FR/) and still set the filename to sitemap.xml.

If that isn't working either, there is something wrong with the write permissions of your file (or the owner).

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