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I'm trying to submit my sitemap on my Google console but every time I add it, it keeps saying it couldn't fetch, I have uploaded my sitemap.xml into my domain root directory but still Google is not seeing it. Please, how can I solve this issue, have been on this for the past two days and it's like I'm going in circles.

My sitemap is in the public_html folder with name sitemap.xml.

UPDATE#1: This is my directory structure:

/home/winnerrs
    /public_html
        /app
        /bootstrap
        /config
        /database
        /docker
        /public
        /resources
        /routes
        /storage
        .htaccess
        artisan
        composer.json
        composer.lock
        docker-compose.yml
        Dockerfile
        package.json
        phpunit.xml
        README.md
        readme.md
        robots.txt
        server.php
        sitemap.xml
        webpack.mix.js

UPDATE#2: This my .htaccess file in the document root:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
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    Requesting /sitemap.xml from your site does result in a 404 - so you do seem to have an issue with your site? (But when you submit a sitemap to GSC, you physically upload it to Google - it doesn't need to "fetch" it?) – MrWhite Dec 29 '18 at 13:21
  • Thank you for your response, much appreciated but at the moment I don't know how to fix this error, I have read all through blogs they don't seems to provide solution for easy for me fix.. I'm very sure I did everything right uploading my sitemap but I don't know whatelse to fix on my GSC to get it successful. Please see my attached image here for possible solution suggest imgur.com/a/OSlqpuw – kratosserver2008 Dec 30 '18 at 11:11
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    The problem is with your site, not GSC. How did you upload this file to your site? What web server are you using? – MrWhite Dec 30 '18 at 14:49
  • Thank you, I upload files to my web server through cpanel and here is information about my server in the attached image here imgur.com/a/8nmVSjH – kratosserver2008 Dec 30 '18 at 20:21
  • Where is your robots.txt file located? Are you rewriting URLs to a subdirectory perhaps? (Maybe include the contents of your .htaccess file in your question.) – MrWhite Dec 31 '18 at 0:05
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Having looked at your directory structure, it would seem that many (all?) files in the document root (where you have uploaded sitemap.xml) are not accessible - they all return 404 Not Found when accessed publicly.

It looks like this might be a Laravel app and you are perhaps rewriting everything to the /public subdirectory (a typical usage pattern with Laravel). In which case you should move sitemap.xml (and any other files that should be publicly accessible) to the /public subdirectory.

To confirm this, we would need to see the contents of your root .htaccess file. (Please edit your question to include this.)

UPDATE: Your .htaccess file confirms the above.

RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]

From your .htaccess file in the document root we can see that all requests are rewritten to the /public subdirectory. So, a request for example.com/sitemap.xml is internally rewritten to example.com/public/sitemap.xml.

This means your document root is "effectively" /home/winnerrs/public_html/public, not /home/winnerrs/public_html, as you first thought.

You need to move the sitemap.xml file from the public_html directory to the public_html/public directory.

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  • Thank you so much for your time, you're so correct it's a Laravel app, I'm not much of a techie, I'm just a user that manage few backend files.. But here is a look at the .htaccess files as requested here imgur.com/a/RQ69CRL.. Please work me through what I should probably do to fix this. Once again thank you so much – kratosserver2008 Dec 31 '18 at 13:36
  • Yes, your .htaccess file confirms my assumption. You need to move the sitemap.xml file from the public_html directory to the public_html/public directory. I've updated my answer. – MrWhite Dec 31 '18 at 20:57
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    Thank you for your time, I so much appreciate that I found the help and you took your precious time to help out. I resubmitted and it was successful. Thank you thank you thank. – kratosserver2008 Dec 31 '18 at 21:52

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