Sitemap and Cloudflare

Hello @fkranjce1

Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to assist you with this.
Cloudflare shouldn’t cache any sitemap files (XML) unless you’ve manually set full site caching with a Page Rule.
You should be able to dd a Page Rule with a Cache Level of Bypass for sitemap patter, for example, this should work for both Yoast and Rankmath:

sitemap(_index)?\.xml(\.gz)?
[a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\.(xml|xsl|html)(\.gz)?
([a-z0-9_\-]*)?\.xml

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Let me know if this helps!

Thanks!

Hi Marko,

I am using full site cache with Page Rules and that is why i’ve asked that question. With free Cloudflare account there is not enough free rules to add rule to bypass sitemap caching. It would be nice if W3 Total Cache also clear all sitemap files in Cloudflare when new post is published.

Hello @fkranjce1

Thank you for your feedback.
The only way to exclude the sitemaps from being cached is by adding a Page Rule as provided in my previous post.
Alternatively, you can purge the entire Cloudflare cache via the W3TC settings, in the top admin bar Performance>Purge modules>CloudFlare: All

Thanks!

Hi Mark,

I am also facing the same issue. Please help me with that.

I don’t know how to add a Page Rule with a Cache Level of Bypass for sitemap pattern.

Please assist me how to do this and where to add this code:

sitemap?\.xml?
[a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\xml|xsl)?
([az0-9_\-]*?)sitemap([a-z0-9_\-]*)?.xml