Re: HTTP error on sitemap status

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for the info. I'll look into the 500 error.

As for the gz files returning "text.plain", I had to take out the mime
type mapping of .gz to application/x-gzip in order to allow retrieval
via wget, otherwise my apache2 server always returned a "403 error".

Also, the ONLY successful poll I've seen from google is of the
http://www.modellocate.com/sitemap.gz so it seems Google is smart
enough to read the header and determine that the text/plain mime type
is incorrect and processes the file as .gz.

Therefore I suspect the issue has something to do with the 500 error.
Why Google seems to get a 500 error 80-90% of the time yet all other
tests I run retrieve the files 99.9% of the time is still a question.

Thanks for the input.

If anyone else has suggestions on what to look for please advise as I'm
out of ideas.

- Lance
Charleston Software Associates