multi store view sitemap.xml url rewrite

Question

I have magento multi store view installation with structure like this:

example.com/it
example.com/fr
example.com/de

I wan't to configure sitemap.xml for every store view. Sitemap.xml files are generated in

example.com/sitemaps/it
example.com/sitemaps/fr
example.com/sitemaps/de

maps, which I did created manually.

Now I wan't to have sitemap.xml files accessible (for google webmaster tools) like this:

example.com/it/sitemap.xml
example.com/fr/sitemap.xml
example.com/de/sitemap.xml

Any suggestions hot to achieve this? Or maybe some better approach for my problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can accomplish this by using an http rewrite rule. Add the following line inside your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(sitemap.xml) /sitemaps/$1/sitemap.xml [L,NC]

after

RewriteEngine on

To use a default store code if none specified in the url, add the following line after the previous one:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)sitemap.xml /sitemaps/it/sitemap.xml [L,NC]

(Obviously you can use other default store code)