WP 5.5 was just released and contains a new core sitemaps feature. You access the sitemap from http://yoursite.com/wp-sitemap.xml With a fresh site and no other issues this works when Apache is the web server but gives a 404 if nginx is the web server.

Try add the following to site.conf.hbs (before the WordPress config segment): location ~* /[wp\-]*sitemap.*\.xml { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args; # return 200 "Match found \n"; allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; } location = /robots.txt { try_files…

WP 5.5 core sitemaps not working in nginx

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Sridhar August 20, 2020, 2:56am 2

+1. Can confirm.

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WP 5.5 core sitemaps not working in nginx

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