Tom Ordonez

Environment * Ruby 1.9.2p320 * Rails 3.2.3 * MAC OSX 10.7.3 * Editing with TextMate * iterm2

Octopress and sitemap

Here is a tutorial about creating a github blog using Octopress. It also shows how to setup a custom domain.

On github my URL is:

tomordonez.github.com

My custom domain is:

tomordonez.com

My sitemap is this:

tomordonez.com/sitemap

In the _config.yml I had the following:

url: http://tomordonez.github.com

I wanted to add the sitemap to my Webmaster tools account and it was giving me this error.

This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.

I looked at my sitemap and it had links like this:

tomordonez.github.com/someposting...

Correct URL on config.yml

I realized that I didn’t have the correct URL in the _config.yml file.

I changed it from this:

url: http://tomordonez.github.com

To this:

url: http://tomordonez.com

Now the sitemap is corrected and can be submitted without Webmaster tools bitching about it.