Sitemap Generator Forum

Got the software installed and running.  Have a few questions about configuring it:

Exclusions-
 We'd like to exclude the directory /faculty/, and everything in it.
 What's the best pattern to exclude?
 Using 'faculty/' might be too greedy, as that would also exclude '/english/faculty/' (?)
 If we'd like to exclude everything in '/documents/' except '/documents/public/', how would we configure this?

Individual attributes-
 Is it possible to give specific pages a different priority and update frequency, while still having the generator use the server's response for the modification time?

News Sitemap-
Is the behavior of the news sitemap documented anywhere?  i.e. what's the default filter to find news items?
If we'd like to give specific news urls a different priority, how would we do this?

Thanks!

Hello,

1. excluding URLs *starting* with "faculty/" would be:
^faculty/*

to have an exception for documents/public you can use this:
documents/[^p].*

2. You can skip "lastmod" part of the setting:
page.php,,monthly,0.9

(notice 2 commas before the update frequency part)

3. New sitemap includes URLs from last 2 days.
In case if you have "Automatic priority" setting enabled generator will assign higher priority to new URLs.
Individual priority can be assigned based on the URL only.

Thanks for the info!  I have a few follow up questions:

Can we change the way the news_sitemap works?  i.e.
Instead of all pages younger than 2 days, can we just have it include all pages in /news/ (for example)?

Hello,

no, news sitemap is created according with google guidelines:
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Another question
Most (all but 11) of the urls the generate finds on our site have a modified date of the request date.  (because they're php files maybe?)

what can we do to correct this?  Is apache configured incorrectly maybe?

You would need to modify your website backend (php script) to include http Last-modified header for each page.