I’m just learning Express and am trying to determine where exactly to put my sitemap.xml file and my robots.txt file. Do they go in the /public folder? Or do they go in the complete root of my Express application?
Thanks very much,
Chris
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I’m just learning Express and am trying to determine where exactly to put my sitemap.xml file and my robots.txt file. Do they go in the /public folder? Or do they go in the complete root of my Express application?
Thanks very much,
Chris
They need to be publically accessible.
publicseems a good spot for that. Those files work because other external services load them from your website. If they aren’t accessible, they don’t do anything.Though, unless you site is very very simple, most dynamic websites generate a
sitemap.xmldynamically. Which means you register a route for it, poll your database for pages/objects that would have pages, and then generate xml based on that info.