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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Change the Sitemap format in Liferay DXP

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Laura Li

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Issue

  • The default Sitemap format in Liferay DXP is "Sitemap Index". For example, accessing http://localhost:8080/sitemap.xml will return the following content. How do I change the default format to use Sitemap instead?
<sitemapindex>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>http://localhost:8080/sitemap.xml?p_l_id=2&layoutUuid=056d0228-b82c-3a0f-800d-942f656b3cec&groupId=20122&privateLayout=false</loc>
  </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

 

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0 - 7.4

 

Resolution

  • Add the following property to portal-ext.properties and restart the server.

# Set this property to false to create the sitemap.xml file based in a
# layout set. By default, a sitemap index is created, which provides links
# to multiple sitemap files rather than one large file containing all the
# urlsets. This requires less bandwidth and improves performance. See
# https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html for more information.
#
# Env: LIFERAY_XML_PERIOD_SITEMAP_PERIOD_INDEX_PERIOD_ENABLED
#
xml.sitemap.index.enabled=false

 

Additional Information

  • Please note that both Sitemap Index and Sitemap are standard formats. Please refer to the following links for more information.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712?hl=en
https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#validating

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