/sitemap:number.xml or /sitemap{number}.xml would be very useful

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I couldn't find my old post, so I start a new one.

Currently I can only do /:number/sitemap.xml
But that doesn't work with sitemaps, they need to be at the root. So I need the dynamic :number in between sitemap and .xml.

website.com/sitemap1.xml
website.com/sitemap2.xml
website.com/sitemap3.xml

And add those to the main sitemap
website.com/sitemap.xml

Right now it means duplicating a static xml page manually and reference those back into the main sitemap if you're having more than 50.000 urls in your webstudio project that you want to be indexed by google and others.

I love webstudio's great power of the ability to create a million pages theoretically. This is where I bump into practically speaking.

Oleg Isonen · Answer

Afaik you can link sitemaps from a single sitemap

Oleg Isonen · Answer

how would you do this?

website.com/sitemap1.xml
website.com/sitemap2.xml
website.com/sitemap3.xml

How does google know that you have sitemap1, 2, 3? It has to be linked from the /sitemap.xml anyways and when its linked the url structure doesn't matter

Oleg Isonen · Answer

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2006/10/multiple-sitemaps-in-same-directory

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

In the main sitemap on https://website.com/sitemap.xml something like this: https://website.com/sitemap1.xml 2025-03-19 https://website.com/sitemap2.xml 2025-03-19 https://website.com/sitemap3.xml 2025-03-19

Oleg Isonen · Answer

I don't see why this would be a problem https://website.com/whatever/sitemap.xml

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Quote from the developers.google link:The important thing is that Sitemaps not contain URLs from parent directories or completely different directories—if that happens, we can't be sure that the submitter controls the URL's directory, so we can't trust the metadata.

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

So all the pages need to be in the /whatever directory.

Oleg Isonen · Answer

so bascially they want a sitemap to reference urls from the same directory

Oleg Isonen · Answer

and to avoid this problem you would need to have the same directory in your urls

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Whatever the directory is

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

The amount of pages can grow daily. It'd be nice that the sitemaps can grow with those 50k limits

Oleg Isonen · Answer

btw maybe it already works like this /post/sitemap:number.xml haven't tried

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

No that's what I'm hoping for haha

Oleg Isonen · Answer

let me ask around what can work

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Thank you very much!

Oleg Isonen · Answer

We checked, the limitation is not even us directly, its react-router https://github.com/remix-run/react-router we are usingSo this type of path won't work.

Oleg Isonen · Answer

there must be something else one can do

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Thanks for getting back at this. Too bad.I'll see if I can find another way.

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Hey @Oleg Isonen
Probably not, but going to ask anyway:
Any way if with the javascript expressions I can remove the text from the variable and turn it into a number? sitemap-1.xml turning that into 1?
If it'd be possible I might have cracked the code

Oleg Isonen · Answer

Nope. How about making it actually a directory and putting all it's routes into that directory?

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

I already have a directory in the main sitemap.
Just trying to figure out how to create these sub sitemaps dynamically.
I could try linking main with subs in baserow and using lookups, allthough that's quite a hard job to do with this amount of records.

Oleg Isonen · Answer

I mean /:directory/sitemap.xml works if you use /:directory/some-page path for the pages

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Yes I started with that. But then the sitemaps can only reach /:directory/item and not /item.But I think I've actually figured it out now!

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Still testing

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/sitemap:number.xml or /sitemap{number}.xml would be very useful