Sitemap blank on production only

[tweakitguy]

Using standard config as per instructions. Generating fine on local machine using
php artisan sitemap:generate

However the same command executive on my production server (NGINX, PHP 8.1) produces an empty sitemap. Only difference I can tell is .env pointing to https. I have added RequestOptions::VERIFY => false as some have pointed out.

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
<div style="all: initial !important;"/>
</urlset>

[lmduckworth]

Hi @tweakitguy, did you get anywhere with this? I'm having the same problem

[tweakitguy]

No, I removed the cron job and just using the local copy I generated. Luckley the website doesn't allow creating new urls.

[AlexisSerneels]

Same here.

[fdjkgh580]

It's help me to fix my same problem
#372 (comment)

use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;

$file = public_path("sitemap.xml");
$url = config("app.url");

SitemapGenerator::create($url)->configureCrawler(function ($crawler) {
    $crawler->ignoreRobots();
})->writeToFile($file);

[iWpress]

But in this case, all unwanted links that you may have noticed for the search robot as rel="nofollow" or pages with the meta tag will be added to the sitemap.

[iWpress]

In my opinion, it is necessary to check the site (https, it does not matter) for the presence of the meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> and links with rel="nofollow" all this will not be added to the sitemap and it is very correct.

[iWpress]

If the link cannot be closed with rel="nofollow", and it is not needed in the sitemap, then you need to add: ->hasCrawled(function ( Url $url ) {...}). Example:

 <a {{--rel="nofollow"--}} title="{{$lang->name}}" href="{{ route('changeLang', $lang->code) }}">

SitemapGenerator::create( config('app.url') )
            ->hasCrawled(function ( Url $url ) {
                if ( $url->segment(1) == 'changeLang' ) {
                    return;
                }
                return $url;
            })        
            ->writeToFile( public_path('sitemap.xml') );
        return ...;