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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Disable sitemap.xml from non-production instance

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Anishq Sharma

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Issue

  • The sitemap.xml needs to be disabled as user does not want search engines to crawl the non-prod instances

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0+

Resolution

  • Please navigate to Site Builder --> Pages --> Configuration --> Public Page configuration --> Advanced
  • Remove the sitemap url from the Robots tab.
  • Furthermore, user can add a * in Disallow section to not allow any search engine to crawl the website at all.
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