#415 OSMap Pro XML Sitemap Not Behaving as Expected

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Latest post by Olivier on Tuesday, 19 August 2025 17:12 UTC

Mickey Mouse

Hi there.

I am encountering a couple of issues with OSMap Pro and J2Commerce and I hope you can help.

The J2Commerce OSMap app has been downloaded and installed

Firstly, if a product or a category is marked as noindex,nofollow it should not appear in the OSMap XML sitemap but it is. I have even tried setting the menu item to noindex,nofollow but the products still appear in the sitemap. I had this problem before and thought I had fixed it, but I have not.

Secondly, the XML OSMap is not finding any of the J2Commerce images.

Many thanks in advance for your support.

EDIT: I just noticed that the HTML sitemap is showing all the items but when you click on one it returns a 404 error. I put the OSMap menu into debug mode and I can see the links are all chewed up.

 

Olivier

Hello Mickey,

are you using v4.1.1 of the plugin?

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Mickey Mouse

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just checked and yes the plugin is v4.1.1.

The menu item links in the HTML sitemap are OK, it is the links to the actual products that are not working

Here is an example of how the product links are looking in the HTML sitemap

/mywebsite.com//mywebsite.com/category/product.html

Thank you for your help

 

 

Olivier

Thanks for checking.

The OSMap plugin only supports main product images for now. That may be why you are not getting images in the sitemaps.

As far as double prefix in the URLs, it seems to happen only at the second level in. Can you try another something like a menu/seb-menu situation to see if that is linked to the site's configuration or just the plugin?

Are you using OSMap Pro? Only that version deals with noindex support.

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Mickey Mouse

Thank you for your fast reply.

OSMap is not finding any images, not even the main product image.

Double prefixes at the second level is correct.

I am sorry, but I do not understand what you are asking me to do, can you clarify? Thank you.

Yes, I am using OSMap Pro.

For the items marked noindex/nofollow... They are all products in one category (these are products that are not ready to go on the main part of the site so they sit in a 'secret' area of the site which we do not want the search engines to index) as a workaround I have moved that menu item from the main menu to a footer menu, so they no longer appear in the main menu OSMap sitemap.

I appreciate all your help with this.

 

Olivier

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Mickey Mouse

Thank you Olivier. Now done.

FYI I have been speaking to Joomlashack as well. I am sure it is totally unconnected but they put out an update to OSMap last night from v5.0.19 to 5.0.20

Mickey Mouse

Good evening.

Just touching base with you to see if you had any more thoughts on this? The client would like to see the website published in the next few weeks.

Many thanks for all your help.

Olivier

I have installed v4.1.2 of the plugin for OSMap that adds the main image support.

If you select 'images' in OSMap, you now see the list of product images.

Tomorrow I will investigate further.

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Mickey Mouse

Thank you so much for looking at this. The product principal images are now showing up. I appreciate your hard work and look forward to hearing back from you. 

Olivier

Of course!

I worked on the URLs. Make sure it works for you.

The version installed is 4.1.2, which I will release shortly after your confirmation that everything is alright.

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Mickey Mouse

Amazing... Thank you Olivier. Everything looks great.

The HTML sitemap is all OK, the XML sitemap is OK. All the URLs are correct. So along with the product images being found everything is good to go!

I really thank you for looking at this and getting it all sorted out:)

Olivier

You are welcome Mickey!

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