CentOS 7.x Generate mediawiki sitemap
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Mediawiki contains maintenance script to generate sitemap. Sitemaps are useful in submitting to online search engines so that they can crawl the site in easy manner.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php has information on how to use the maintenace script.
Example invocation is:
cd /documents/public_html/notes_wiki php maintenance/generateSitemap.php --fspath=/documents/public_html/sitemap/ --urlpath=https://www.sbarjatiya.com/sitemap/ --server=https://www.sbarjatiya.com --compress=yes
Here,
- /documents/public_html/notes_wiki
- is the location where LocalSettings.php file for mediawiki is located. The maintenance subfolder is inside this folder
- /documents/public_html/sitemap/
- is the path outside the mediawiki base folder where sitemap should be generated
- https://www.sbarjatiya.com/sitemap/
- is the URL which can allow access to files inside /documents/public_html/sitemap/ over web
- https://www.sbarjatiya.com
- is the mediawiki webserver name
After this open http://search.google.com/search-console (or http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools) and submit the sitemap for your site for consideration by google. In above example sitemap URL to submit to google for www.sbarjatiya.com site would be:
/sitemap/sitemap-index-notes_wiki.xml
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