Implementing sitemaps in Django

Question

I'm having a problem implementing the sitemaps in my application. I'm using Virtualenv, django 1.4 and Python 2.7. I would appreciate if you can help me resolve this.

This is what I have done:

1. In my urls.py

   from sitemap import JobPostSitemap
   sitemaps = { 
       'jobs': JobPostSitemap, 
   }
   ... # Removed other urls
   url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
   

2. Then in my sitemap.py file

   from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap
   from jobs.models import JobPost
   
   class JobPostSitemap(Sitemap):
       changefreq = "never"
       priority = 0.5
   
       def items(self):
           return JobPost.objects.filter(approved=True)
   
       def lastmod(self, obj):
           return obj.pub_date
   

3. My settings.py file is as follows:

   TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
       'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
       'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
   )
   ...
   INSTALLED_APPS = ( 
       'django.contrib.auth', 
       'django.contrib.contenttypes', 
       'django.contrib.sessions', 
       'django.contrib.sites', 
       'django.contrib.messages', 
       'django.contrib.staticfiles', 
       'django.contrib.sitemaps', 
       'jobs', 
   )
   ...
   

Now when I open my browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/sitemap.xml , I get the following error:

ImportError at /sitemap.xml

No module named django.contrib.sitemaps
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/sitemap.xml
Django Version: 1.4.2
Exception Type: ImportError
Exception Value:    
No module named django.contrib.sitemaps
Exception Location: /home/frank/Projects/python/django/techjobsea.com/baseline27/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.2-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py in import_module, line 35
Python Executable:  /home/frank/Projects/python/django/techjobsea.com/baseline27/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.3

I can't figure out what I've missed or doing wrong.

Cairns

Have you followed all the required installation steps for sitemap? The required steps here – Audun

@Audun Yes. I followed the all the steps. – Cairns

@MuratÇorlu No, I didn't. Can't explain why its not working. – Cairns

Answer 1

I had similar error. I changed urls.py definition like that:

from sitemap import JobPostSitemap
from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
sitemaps = { 
    'jobs': JobPostSitemap, 
}
... # Removed other urls
url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),

and It worked for me. I don't know why...

Higginbotham

Dude, this actually worked. Thanks. I will be interested to know why this works as opposed to the other method. Sweeet! – Cairns

Did the patterns call have a non-empty prefix parameter? Something like urlpatterns = patterns('some.prefix', url(r'...'), ....)? This could have been your problem. – Maine

Answer 2

It may be a PYTHONPATH issue. Run python manage.py shell and try to import django.contrib.sitemaps

Retina

Answer 3

The problem probably lies in the url.py config that you have not wholly submitted. In my case I had inadvertently left a prefix of the form: urlpatterns = patterns('...') that prevented Django from finding the right path.

Came

Thanks, but I have included that section. All the urls work fine except the sitemap. – Cairns

Answer 4

To activate sitemap generation on your Django site, add this line to your URLconf:

(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps})

This tells Django to build a sitemap when a client accesses /sitemap.xml.

Insane