Sitemaps¶ ↑

Setup a config yaml file. I will download & compress your sitemaps!

Sitemaps provides an executable that will take a configuration yaml file. When runned it will download and gzip-compress your sitemaps ready for production!

Basically the idea is that you do not want your production server to compile the xml every single time, and on top of that you do not want to (gzip) your sitemap on the fly nor tell your web-server to do that for every single request.

So we precompile, the sitemaps and compress them in a “generator” machine and store the static gziped-sitemaps on the webserver.

Sitemaps provides a simple way to do this, put the name of your ‘generator-machine’ and setup your production domain, subdirectories and sitemap-index (sitemap of sitemaps) will be dinamically generated for you. so all you have to do is execute and copy to your web-servers!

a sample robots file is also generated for you, you can simply cat this and append it to your existing robots.txt file or simply use it as a reference if you are generating it dinamically.

By Kazuyoshi Tlacaelel

Run..

$ sitemaps config.yml

Enjoy!

$ tree sitemaps
sitemaps
|-- downloads
|   `-- communities.xml
|-- index.xml
|-- index.xml.gz
|-- robots.txt
`-- sitemaps
    `-- communities.xml.gz

    2 directories, 5 files

# external libraries
require 'net/http'
require 'yaml'
require 'zlib'
require 'builder'

• automatic generation of sitemap indexes ( a sitemap of sitemaps )

  $ cat sitemaps/index.xml
  
  <?version1.0encodingUTF-8?>
  <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
      <loc>http://example.com/sitemaps/communities.xml.gz</loc>
      <lastmod>2009-09-15</lastmod>
    </sitemap>
  </sitemapindex>

• sample robots.txt generation

  Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemaps/index.xml.gz

• download of sitemaps + compression

  $ tree sitemaps
  
  sitemaps
  |-- downloads
  |   `-- communities.xml
  |-- index.xml
  |-- index.xml.gz
  |-- robots.txt
  `-- sitemaps
      `-- communities.xml.gz
  
      2 directories, 5 files

• The config file

  configuration:
  
    # Machine that generates your sitemaps
    # do not prefix "http://" nor append the port
    generator: localhost
  
    # The http-port of your generator
    generator_port: 3000
  
    # The time to wait for each sitemap to be received
    generator_timeout: 999
  
    # Domain from where the sitemaps will be available.
    # It is important that you do not append the last slash
    # otherwise you may get an error message
    #
    # NG
    # http://example.com/
    #
    # OK
    # http://example.com
    #
    domain: http://example.com
  
    # Path to sitemaps to be compiled on "generator".
    # For example: if you have the following url
    #
    #   http://localhost:3000/sitemap_for/users.xml
    #
    # The target must be specified as such
    #
    # Note: you can have multiple targets
    #
    targets:
      - /sitemap_for/users.xml
  
    # Directory where compressed maps will be placed.
    #
    # Its a good idea to use a sub-path in your domain.
    #
    # For example:
    # (your dump_dir could be sitemaps for the following url)
    #
    #   http://example.com/sitemaps
    #
    dump_dir: sitemaps

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
$ gem install ktlacaelel-sitemaps

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but

  bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux]

(havent tried any other let me know if you have any problems)

# Darwin tlacaelel.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
# Linux utopia.local 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:45:36 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

only the download and compression part have no tests but the api is
pretty stable

MIT LICENSE

Copyright © 2009 kazuyoshi tlacaelel. See “LICENSE” file for details.