Error generating Sitemap

[ianfe24]

Hello, when I try to generate a sitemap at magento 2, it shows me this error:

Please make sure that "/" is writable by the web-server.

If anyone can help me with this, it would be awesome, thanks.

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @ianfe24,

Probably your files owner is not the same than the user than runs the webserver.

For that reason you webserver can't write the file. Can you check that?

[ianfe24]

Hello, my file owner of the server is magento:www-data, when I type at the SSH ls -lah

[Damian Culotta]

Hi, but maybe the group has only read access?

[Sunil Patel]

@ianfe24

create one folder inside magento directory and set 777 permission.

In sitemap give path value /test/ and save it.

Where test is my directory name.

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @ianfe24, @Sunil Patel,

Please try to avoid the 777 permission. It will be a security risk.

Try to set the owner of those files/directories with the same user than the one is executing the webserver process.

[Sunil Patel]

@Damian Culotta

I know, so i said to create folder and assign it.

[MyPLCGuy]

I my case, Magento 2.4 CE (Ubuntu 18.4, Apache), the solution was to have the containing directory group and owner as www-data.  Prior to that it was owner: magento and group: www-data.

This change is required because HTTP login to Magento admin is via Apache2 with user and group being www-data.

All of the files and directories in the containing directory remain as, owner: magento and group: www-data.

EG: /var/www/html/mydomain.com/magento/

The sitemap file is now written successfully with owner and group of www-data.

Good luck.