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WonderWebWare Sitemap Generator on Linux with Wine

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A couple days back I was looking for a tool to create a sitemap of our sites so I could send the sitemap to Google and Yahoo to help improve our site listings and page rank

After allot of waisted time trying to create a decent sitemap with the free online SiteMap Generators. Most if not all of free online Sitemap Generators are fronts to serve ads or in the end try to sell you what they advertise as free! Most of the free online SiteMap Generators only create 500 links, and if you have a large site this is not acceptable. And if you find a Generator that does upto 5,000 links at the end of the process they then ask for a payment before they hand over the "what was suppose to be free" data.

Just when I was about to give up I came across a tool that not only does what it says but also does so much more. Sitemap Generator from WonderWebWare was just what I was looking for. Below is how to run this and other tools from WonderWebWare on Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris with Bordeaux or vanilla Wine from WineHQ.

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Comments (8)

tracyanne ·
I've looked for Free Software tools to do this before and never found any, how come no one botehrs to write such tools, are all true blue Free Software geeks hand coding their site maps, or don't they bother?
DarrenR114 ·
most of us probably have our own wget scripts to generate a site map file - eg "$ wget -rx -np --delete-after -o site.log http://lxer.com"

Granted, this exact set of parameters to wget will get you a lot more than you probably want, but that's what other options like '-X' are for.

check out what you can do with wget: http://linux.die.net/man/1/wget
tracyanne ·
Still that doesn't neatly format it into various formats for consumption by the search engines, you still have to do most of the work manually, or develop your own scripts. I don't have any, the people I'm trying to get to think about using Free Software tools before they reflexively go out and use/buy proprietary tools definitely won't, and yet there we are, a nice little proprietary package that does all the boilerplate stuff for you, that runs only on Windows (or WINE).
twickline Story submitter ·
Yes, it would be nice if their was native Free Software like Sitemap Generator for Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris etc... This software is free to use, the developer just asks for Donations to help cover the cost of development. I'm happy the software works with Wine, it saved me allot of time and it does exactly what you need it to do.
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:I've looked for Free Software tools to do this before and never found any


Look harder :-)

http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/ http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGene... http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sitemapgen/

Etcetera. Google has tons on more links.
twickline Story submitter ·
Look harder :-)

The Google Sitemap Generator hasnt had a update in seven + months now, its beta and 50% of people dont like it. Someone needs to take the project over. :)
Sander_Marechal ·
@twickline: No update in 7 months doesn't say much. The sitemap file format doesn't change. If the app works, why change it? As for it being beta, well, it's google. Everything is in perpetual beta. GMail was in beta for five years!
tracyanne ·
Thanks Sander, unfortunately it's not quite what I thought it would be. For 1. it only generates Google sitemaps and 2. it must be installed on the server for which the site map will be generated. The proprietary application still has better and more functionality.

In the second link, which lists a bunch of sitemap generators all the download and run locally versions are for Windows only, just like the proprietary one that started this thread.

the Linux and cross platform sitemap generators must be installed on the webserver that is to be mapped, which is fine, but it's not good if you are not able to or not allowed to install additional software to the server.

the third link is just the google sitemap generator again.

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