Generate sitemap.xml #2347
Description
Description of the issue 📄
There are many 404 Not found log entries for /sitemap.xml, because search engine crawlers are trying to find one and none can be found.
Screenshots 📷
We get a lot of log lines like these
2025-09-15T19:25:35.721003+00:00 app[web.3]: [07030b65-be40-4c12-a957-4d6f2de7c23a] Started GET "/sitemap.xml" for 172.70.80.167 at 2025-09-15 20:25:35 +0100
2025-09-15T19:25:35.738385+00:00 app[web.3]: [07030b65-be40-4c12-a957-4d6f2de7c23a] Processing by ChapterController#show as XML
2025-09-15T19:25:35.738469+00:00 app[web.3]: [07030b65-be40-4c12-a957-4d6f2de7c23a] Parameters: {"id" => "sitemap"}
2025-09-15T19:25:35.747908+00:00 app[web.3]: [07030b65-be40-4c12-a957-4d6f2de7c23a] Completed 404 Not Found in 9ms (ActiveRecord: 0.8ms | Allocations: 8081)
2025-09-15T19:25:35.750622+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/sitemap.xml" host=codebar.io request_id=07030b65-be40-4c12-a957-4d6f2de7c23a fwd="216.73.216.141, 172.70.80.167" dyno=web.3 connect=0ms service=31ms status=404 bytes=0 protocol=http1.1 tls=true tls_version=unknown
These shouldn't be hitting the Rails app, nor producing any log lines.
Steps to fix 🛠
Implement sitemap.xml :-)
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