Developer Workstation Installation

A sitemap is used by a shop administrator to inform search engines about the webshop URLs that are available for indexing. The sitemap is the XML file that contains the webshop URLs with additional metadata about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other webshop URLs.

By default six types of pages are available for indexing: 'Content pages', 'Content landing pages', 'Product list pages', 'Product landing pages', 'News items' and 'Product details pages'.

The language-specific URLs are also created in the 'sitemap' files when the webshop is multi-language.

In case of a multi-shop solution a separate 'Sitemap Export' task must be configured for each webshop.

The sitemap functionality uses the Sana Commerce task scheduler. For more information about the task scheduler read this chapter.

The configuration of the sitemap is performed in the 'sanaCommerce' configuration section of the backoffice 'web.config' file.

To configure the 'Sitemap Export' task:

Step 1: Open the backoffice 'web.config' file.

Step 2: Locate the 'SanaCommerce' configuration section.

Step 3: Locate the 'tasks' subsection:

<task name="SiteMapTask"
     type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.SiteMapTask,  Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap"

     time="1:00am"
     enabled="false"
     websiteCode = "B2xSql"
     folderName = "SiteMap"
     allowManualStart="true"
     itemsCountInFile ="50000"
     compress = "true"
     sortNumber="1"/>

<providers>
    <provider name="ProductSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.ProductSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="100" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
    <provider name="ContentLandingPageSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.ContentLandingPageSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="1000" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
    <provider name="ContentPageSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.ContentPageSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="1000" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
    <provider name="NewsItemSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.NewsItemSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="1000" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
    <provider name="ProductLandingPageSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.ProductLandingPageSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="1000" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
    <provider name="ProductListPageSiteMapExportProvider" type="Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap.Providers.ProductListPageSiteMapExportProvider, Sana.Commerce.Tasks.SiteMap" batchSize="1000" priority="0.5" changeFrequency="daily"/>
</providers>
</task>

Step 4: Check the following configuration nodes and modify them if needed:

The providers should be configured for each type of page which is available for indexing.

The description of the configuration nodes of the providers is given in the table below:

Step 5: Create the folder where the 'sitemap' files will be stored.

Give the SC_Webuser 'Modify' rights to the folder where the created 'sitemap' files are stored.

When the 'sitemap' file has been created and placed on the webserver, you need to inform the search engines that support this protocol of its location. You can do this by specifying the location of the sitemap using the 'robots.txt' file, which must be placed in the root of the webshop hierarchy. To do this, add the following line to the 'robots.txt' file including the full URL to the sitemap depending on the configured 'folderName':
Sitemap: http://www.webshop.com/sitemap/siteindex.xml

For more information about sitemaps please visit this website: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

For more information about logging in task scheduler read this chapter.