Spatie Laravel sitemap generated xml file is empty

Question

I am developing a Laravel application. Now, I am trying to implement the sitemap for my website using this package, https://github.com/spatie/laravel-sitemap. But when I generate sitemap.xml, no paths are included in the file.

I installed the package running the Composer command

composer require spatie/laravel-sitemap

Then I published the Composer.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider" --tag=config

In the routes/web.php, I added this.

Route::get('sitemap', function () {
    SitemapGenerator::create('http://app.localhost/')->writeToFile('sitemap.xml');
    return "Sitemap generated".
});

When I run the code and sitemap.xml is generated. When I opened the sitemap.xml, that is all I found in it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
</urlset>

I have many routes in the web.php. What is wrong and how can fix it?

Is your home page contains links that crawlable by the package? Actually the package working by crawling any contain links in the page. It's not reading from the routes definition. — Dharma Saputra, Jan 07 '19 at 12:26
On the home page, I put some links using anchor tags. But it is just not working or crawling — Wai Yan Hein, Jan 07 '19 at 16:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '19 at 14:24

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You can manually add other urls like below and when you run it, the links will be added to your sitemap file:

use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use Spatie\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

 Route::get('sitemap', function () {
    SitemapGenerator::create('https://vesicash.com/')->getSitemap()
    ->add(Url::create('/link1')->setPriority(0.5))
    ->add(Url::create('/link2')->setPriority(0.5))
    ->add(Url::create('/link3')->setPriority(0.5))
    ->add(Url::create('/privacy')->setPriority(0.5))
    ->writeToFile('sitemap.xml');
    return "Sitemap Generated";
});

answered Apr 10 '19 at 14:24

Ehi

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can you please tell me how can i add pages in for loop. actually my pages are dynamic. – Emtiaz Zahid May 17 '20 at 11:45
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-sitemap/blob/main/resources/views/url.blade.php – Youzef Jun 05 '22 at 18:18

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 21 '20 at 21:38

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This is how I solved this problem:

I just made sure that the APP_URL was set properly in .env file.

I added, for example: https://example.com/ and boom it worked.

This should also work on your local pc as well.

edited Jul 21 '20 at 21:38

Peter Csala

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answered Jul 21 '20 at 11:26

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 27 '20 at 19:37

When I did it first time it looked same for me.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
</urlset>

I think you did it on your local pc.

So first, you can test with this url.

SitemapGenerator::create("https://spatie.be/en")
            ->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));

If it works well, then I believe it will work on server too. In my case it worked on server, while it was same result with you on my local.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '23 at 23:55

Solution to anyone, don't panic

the problem is when u clear config or when u run php artisan optimize:clear

the url will be null or ''

so solution is : (config('app.url') ?? 'http://www.myspecialdomain.com')

this will check if url exist if not it will use provided url.

Have a good day

Spatie Laravel sitemap generated xml file is empty

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